Results Oriented: The Struggle

[BobboFitos]

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Okay, so at the moment I'm on a 5 BI downswong (noes!) after being on a nice heater for a bit, and its like crushing my morale (or was).

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Since when is 5 buyins a downswing? Thats 5 minutes baby!

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3. What do you guys do to just shake your losses and and just deal with variance?

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play low enough so that 5 buyins is lol material.

[stackingboxes]

I know exactly how u feel. I just dropped almost 10BI today...

It hurts u'r confidence, and thats what screws u the most.

Just take a break for a day, enjoy something u love to do other than poker. Comeback the following day focus and ready to kill.

[Kevin Browne]

ive lost 10 BI's in an hour a couple of times, that suks worse.....but honestly the best thing to do is stop playing when things arent going yr way.

[Al_Money]

fees,

play 3/6 for like 1k hands or something, then 2/4 will seem like a lot less money.

[Zaid_Ahmed]

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I lost $2.8k in one day on Sunday (worst loss to date) but it didn't feel as bad as losing my first $1k all in one day felt. I used to get worked up and tilted about losing $50 at NL25. I think jfish has it right and you get used to it.

I try not to check my PT nor my balance, especially during play. I used to refresh my balance on Party every time I had free time between hands (seriously; lol).

I put some hands in this morning, probably ended up, but I don't even know how much because I didn't bother to check; closed PT and was done with poker for the day. So I'm trying not to gloat about wins so I don't get all worked up against losses.

Swongs are just one thing.

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I still do this and need to get tagged like Cartman did in the South Park movie for everytime I check my balance

[Zaid_Ahmed]

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What do you guys do to just shake your losses and and just deal with variance?

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$2-$50 HU Sngs (preferably PLO) on Full Tilt potting every hand and every street regardless. Winning can be awesome sometimes. Needless to say, I am a huge Sharkscope fish.
I don't know if this will help you but it relieves alot of stress from a poor session.

[ImsaKidd]

Convince yourself that you are playing well or that you learned from the hands you played poorly. I had a pretty big dswing last month (at least in terms of imsabuys), and the main reason I grinded through it was I was confident I was playing well, not tilting, etc.

Good ways to checkup:
1: Talking about hands over AIM
2: PokerEV
3: Pokerstove
4: Posting hands in the forum

[fees]

FWIW I use a pretty conservative stoploss, but in retrospect its just the money, Im def rolled this is just the first of many -2k swongs, since I've started looking at it like BI's its like LOL 5 BI .. LOOOOL

thanks imsa, those are like the basics and the most solid way to deal

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[homeboy604]

i lost 5k a few days ago (wost day ever) and felt fine.
on valentines day this year i lost 2.5k and wanted to die.
my threshold is increasing...

[Ship Ship McGipp]

i'm down 40 the last two days but am playing the best poker of my life