The final truth about down swings.

[morphball]

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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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I think people are being a little harsh with the n00b, what he says here is right for 95% of 2+2's downswings. Only a small fraction of us are actually good enough that our game will not be damaged by a run of bad cards. In other words, 95% of us tilt, and when that happens, 95% should take a break from cards, search our souls, and figure out why we tilted.

After acheiving zen, we can be among the 5% of winning players who do not tilt, and only then we can truly blame 100% of our losses on bad cards. Btw, when this happens, you will be on the road for riches...I am willing to bet that tilt costs the average winning player in NL 1-3 ptbb/100, and below average/losing and worse ones 5-25 ptbb/100. I dunno about limit, which IMO is the lowest form of poker...yucky, I cringe just thinking about it

<u>Edit</u>-I didn't realize this was an older post either...