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Originally Posted by browni3141
This in unremarkable. Over a sample of 873.5 hours I have a win-rate of $44.11/h. My two worst downswings were -$6844 in 50.8 hours and -$7364 in 136.6 hours.
These were my session results for the first one.
-750
-1201
18
-600
286
-683
-1600
-1314
-1000
9 sessions, 2 wins, and those wins were hardly wins at all. I just had a 50 hour stretch of pretty consistent losing.
Don't get worked up about it. Poker seems hard now, but eventually you will start running good or even and it will seem easy again.
At some point you will run worse than you thought possible, and when you think things can't possibly get any worse, they will. The downswing you are describing is probably not even a -2 SD event. Expect much worse as you continue playing.
I agree with all of this.
I will also add that in my worst downswings, the first handful of buy-ins lost were invariably from running bad with an unusual cluster of terrible run outs in big pots, mixed in with long periods of being card dead. However, typically the last couple buy-ins I lost were the result of poor play from some form of tilt i.e. overplaying my strong hands (can't let them get there on me again!!) or playing far too passive. That's a leak I'm still working on but I'm guessing most players fall into a similar pattern. If you can avoid doing that, it will make a huge difference on your win rate. Taking a few days off to try to reset is a good idea. Once you hold up and scoop a big pot poker will feel much, much easier.