Down Swings

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If you are a winning player BANKROLL deals with the swings.

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Dont post obvious, yet irrelevant resonses like this.

What everyone else said is spot on. Take a break, analyze your game and most importantly, DONT PLAY ON TILT! I've struggled with this in the past, and the best way to break an approaching downswing is to close all your windows immediately the second you start to tilt and things are going to chit.

Talk with friends, read read read, 2+2 it up, go down a level to rebuild confidence, or just take a break from all things related to poker for a couple days and clear your mind...all things I do and they work well.

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For the benefit of OSUGreg1983 who obviously could not understand the point I was making I will expand.

If you are correctly bankrolled the downswings should not be as painful and therefore you will avoid tilting (or at least greatly reduce it). Every player needs to accept that downswings are an inevitable part of playing poker. Variance will occur and is one of the main reasons players tilt and then go on a downward spiral and play worse.

I have playing online poker for 5 years and much longer than that live. I am a winning player over an enormous timescale. I never redeposit and only withdraw. The reason is that I am correctly bankrolled. I go through downswings as all players do but I accept this and it doesn’t hurt so much because I know it will turn. Taking a break does not break the spell. You need to carry on playing correct poker and making the right decisions.

Some players will not be winning players and will need to set a budget on what they can afford to pay for their poker entertainment but even those players will benefit by playing within a good bankroll. You don’t want a few bad beats to mean a huge chunk of your bankroll has gone.

Good luck to the OP in dealing with your swings.

[OSUGreg1983]

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If you are a winning player BANKROLL deals with the swings.

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Dont post obvious, yet irrelevant resonses like this.

What everyone else said is spot on. Take a break, analyze your game and most importantly, DONT PLAY ON TILT! I've struggled with this in the past, and the best way to break an approaching downswing is to close all your windows immediately the second you start to tilt and things are going to chit.

Talk with friends, read read read, 2+2 it up, go down a level to rebuild confidence, or just take a break from all things related to poker for a couple days and clear your mind...all things I do and they work well.

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For the benefit of OSUGreg1983 who obviously could not understand the point I was making I will expand.

If you are correctly bankrolled the downswings should not be as painful and therefore you will avoid tilting (or at least greatly reduce it). Every player needs to accept that downswings are an inevitable part of playing poker. Variance will occur and is one of the main reasons players tilt and then go on a downward spiral and play worse.

I have playing online poker for 5 years and much longer than that live. I am a winning player over an enormous timescale. I never redeposit and only withdraw. The reason is that I am correctly bankrolled. I go through downswings as all players do but I accept this and it doesn’t hurt so much because I know it will turn. Taking a break does not break the spell. You need to carry on playing correct poker and making the right decisions.

Some players will not be winning players and will need to set a budget on what they can afford to pay for their poker entertainment but even those players will benefit by playing within a good bankroll. You don’t want a few bad beats to mean a huge chunk of your bankroll has gone.

Good luck to the OP in dealing with your swings.

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If you would have posted this in the first place I wouldn't have taken to you the way I did. Lesson learned? Great!

[greekgooner]

Throw the mouse out of the window, take a deep breath, plug in replacement mouse and rebuy. Repeat every other day.

[thrasher789]

Take a break if you have to, reevaluate your game, read 2+2 literature, lurk and post on these forums 12 hours a day, ect.

But seriously, sometimes taking a break and finding leaks in your game is the best way to break out of a downswing, you can also drop down a level to rebuild your roll and confidence.

[SDone]

I throw a hissy fit and bitch to my girlfriend.

[Zorlac]

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But seriously, sometimes taking a break and finding leaks in your game is the best way to break out of a downswing, you can also drop down a level to rebuild your roll and confidence.

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One important point is that not all downswings are 'downswings'. You should look at the hands that are costing you and ask if its variance/bad luck or if there are some particular hands/situations you're playing poorly.


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[Airway Manual]

Downswings are the best opportunity to learn and develop your game, so "welcome" them. Its never easy to have one, but winners come through as better players..

[ravenfan1733]

You go on tilt, blow your roll, re-deposit and promise yourself to stick to a max number of buy-ins for a day. Repeat.

[syncmaster]

Having a bankroll will stop you from busting, along with taking a brake. None of these help me deal with the downswing. You just have to get used to it I guess, but man I really feel like a [censored] degen POS when I can't win. I hope I can get over it.

[tcreast]

This thread has some good stuff:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/newrep...part=1&vc=1

Hope that helps.