The final truth about down swings.

[Aytumious]

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I firmly believe that downswings happen because of the player, not the cards... Learn to fold in tight marginal situations.. Alot of players i notice when complaining about badbeats and downswings and whatnot, they will play badly until they start getting lucky again, and then their game will pick up from there.. because they are happy again.

If you face a couple beats in a night stop, go out to the bar, get laid, and go back to playing poker.. Its the player that creates bad runs, not the cards... believe me.

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You could be the best player in the world and you will certainly have a downswing that is due to nothing more than not getting profitable situations. Saying that downswings are due to nothing more than bad play shows a huge lack of understanding of basic poker mathematics.

[Schwags]

"Saying that downswings are due to nothing more than bad play shows a huge lack of understanding of basic poker mathematics"

and what basic mathematics are these? understand you have to play well through the swing to overcome it, and thats hard to do when you cant handle one more loss, mentally.

[Aytumious]

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"Saying that downswings are due to nothing more than bad play shows a huge lack of understanding of basic poker mathematics"

and what basic mathematics are these? understand you have to play well through the swing to overcome it, and thats hard to do when you cant handle one more loss, mentally.

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You started your original post with, "I firmly believe that downswings happen because of the player, not the cards" and then went on about how a person should quit after a few bad beats and go get drunk and laid.

Downswings are mathematically inevitable even for people who are crushing their regular game, so getting upset and quitting is just money down the drain. Not only that, but if you don't understand why downswings are inevitable, you will cause yourself needless psychological suffering when you aren't running well yet still playing well, which can cause tilt.

[allintuit]

""Saying that downswings are due to nothing more than bad play shows a huge lack of understanding of basic poker mathematics"

and what basic mathematics are these? understand you have to play well through the swing to overcome it, and thats hard to do when you cant handle one more loss, mentally."

I have no clue what the last sentence here means. Also, the basic mathematics are called statistics, if you've ever heard of them... They're quite popular these days.