possible for winning player to become permanently losing?

[Janabis]

I had the same thing happen. I was crushing poker from about January to August. My biggest month earned $21k mostly from the NL400 game. Then I took a month off to travel and play part time and only made about $5k. When I got home I was ready to hit the tables full time again, but I started off with about 30k hands of really ugly coolers and bad beats, and after that NOTHING would work for me any more.

I put my game on autopilot and broke even for another 70k hands or so, at which point I started reviewing all my sessions with a friend to try and find out wtf was going on. Basically, after all the frustrations of the coolers and band beats, I had just put my game on autopilot. I was cbetting every flop, and check folding the turn way too often. I reviewed all my sessions and saw myself losing big pots from the small blind over and over again. I had opened up huge leaks in my game in pots that didn't go to showdown.

It's been about 2 months and I finally feel at this point that I've fixed the major problems and think I'm back on track. If you're not doing it already, I would recommend going through poker tracker after each session to review all the big losing hands you played, and pay particular attention to your position in those hands.