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i have been running ridiculously bad lately. actually its been sence around mid-feb. i used to run over these small NL cash games. you know all these tourists coming to town to "try there hand at Texas Hold em" id just kill em
and with the small buy-in tourneys ($80-150 buy-in) as well!
it was pretty common for me to make the final table and usually cash.
now im not exactly sure what happened in febuary, but something did, and im now im lucky to make it to the first break! i havent walked from a cash game with chips in i-dont-know-how-long. WTF????
my confidence is at an all time low. when i get my money in good. it seems like i ALWAYS get sucked out on. and when i DO have the pure nuts, even though i know i cant lose, it seems like im expecting to somehow lose this one too.
ive tried taking some time off (2 weeks) and that didnt help. do i play my way out of this funk? (bankroll is taking a hit) do i take more time off? do i quit all together? what? or is this just one of those things that happens to poker players? during my 6 years playing never had a dry spell like this sence my first year, when i was a TOTAL DONKEY! am i a donkey again? any sugestions you guys have would be great! thanks again
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The answer is yes, you probably are a donkey again. A long losing streak can do that to you.

Since so much about NL is intuition and general feel and sense of danger and all the rest of it, if you're getting outdrawn with monster hands repeatedly (it happens), or losing because someone makes a stupid play, causing you to misread their hand, or all the other things that can go wrong just on chance, it's going to screw with your poker sense - especially if you're relatively new to the game and don't have years of experience to fall back on.

Sometimes you'll be timid because you're afraid of being outdrawn, sometimes you'll be over-aggressive for the same reason. The phrase "suicide for fear of death" comes to mind.

Like other people are saying, take a break, and just read theory. Approach what you're reading as if you were a beginner and try to take it in fresh. Just hang in there, brother.