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[smokingrobot]

how do you get out of a down swing? you know, when you have trips on the turn and everyone around you is hitting 1 and 2 outers to full houses and straight flushes and so on? i mean seriously, what do i ahve to sacrifice/eat/dance/cry/scream/flip out/etc to break this?

i quit for like 5 months because i was getting so frustrated that it wasnt fun anymore, and so i started playing again and its like right back where i left off.

im 21/8.5/ yet my W$SD% is like 30%. my postflop play is seriously not that bad. its been about 1.5K hands, which may not be much for you day job grinders, but for a sap like me its quite a bit.

i really dont need any replies, i just needed to whine. thanks.

let me add that its actually been about 2K hands, and thats only in the past week, im not counting the bad run i had previous to starting to play again.

whine whine whine whine whine. f*****************!!!

[Jehaim]

Keep playing.

[grouchie]

transfer all your money to my neteller account.
then redeposit and start over

[JCCARL]

Recently received my fair share of bad beats.. they happen. Remember that a real bad beat means that you got your money in with the best hand, and got drawn out on, against the odds. This means that you are doing a few things right, as opposed to simply relying on dumb luck.
Chalk it up to variance and keep playing, as long as you still enjoy it.
Carl

[smokingrobot]

dumb luck, for me, seems to be the part where people play poor like they normally do and their 1 and 2 outers dont hit. i think i've been born unlucky. im'ma check my hand percentages against probabilities (how many flushes i've gotten, how many straights, full houses, etc)... i think im way behind.

[smokingrobot]

so im playing out this crap variance period of my life at the .25/.50. i figure, i'll jsut MT the micros until this ends.

what sucks is i've had this dark cloud over me in other things besides poker. what gives? did i do something horribly wrong?