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Old 11-15-2006, 08:41 PM
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Default Re: The final truth about down swings.

When one starts playing (somewhere) one is unlikely to hit bigger losing streaks. The longer one plays (weeks, months) the more likely one is to hit bigger losing streaks. The reason is that the happenings are like on a map where there are losing spots and the longer one has been playing the more likely it is to hit many of those losing spots, and finally the year will come when one can bust even a 1000 big bets bankroll, and that's why most top players have been broke at some point.

Psychologically it's difficult to keep playing when one is on a big losing streak, but playing them through is the only way to get over them. When one is on such a streak, it will just continue and one knows it from the past that the luck will now be bad and one will keep losing (just maybe breaking even if it's a really good game). That's in my opinion the hardest part of poker.
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