Hit the felt for the first time in a couple of weeks last night, due to work/family 'getting in the way'.

Playing at around 11pm UK time (mainly $8/15 180 man turbos), must have been a lot of post pub people on as I saw so much bad play, which I like to see obviously.

But then I got a ridiculous run of bad beats, mainly from people calling when they shouldn't....all in with TT, two calls from JQo and 88 (8 on the flop) BUSTO......4bet all in with AKs, called by JQo (AQQ flop) BUSTO......AKs v AKdd (ddd flop), altho that was just a bad beat not an eeedjut, and this continued. At one point I 3bet UTG's 3x raise (FOS), going all in with 44 and 14bbs from the BB, for UTG to call and flip over 82o.....this time the 4s held otw I would have been real mad. I never type any chat abuse as this is all just a bit of variance I know....(a Brazilian did break at one point, shouting abuse at a Moldovan who was playing like a grade eeedjut, which I could empathise with).....but I only single table (ducks for cover as 2+2 community throw objects in disgust) so there's only so much variance a man can take on one night.

In the end I switched it off and went to sleep, dreaming of better days.

There may be no question here, just a semi-rant, but I came damn close to typing some chat. How do you deal with the downswings? Maybe more volume is the answer.....but I play on a tablet, which is not condusive to that.

Anyone else got pain to share?

ROI are the ultimate variance killer, higher ROIs will swing less frequent and the size will also be smaller than someone with a low ROI

Volume will help you to get out of downers faster and also max your hourly.

Badbeats are part of the game, it what keeps it profitbale and we just need to accept them and deal with them in the most healthy way posible so i encurage you to read/study a lot about the mental game of poker

Cheers

You can't expect to be single tabling and hope to get through a swing quickly enough. Personally I don't play turbos but I know how a 250-500 BI swing can happen on those games so, yeh, that would take a while single tabling. I'm not discouraging you to play but maybe you should try a different approach.

Been there done that.

I always use 'all in equity' in Pokertracker. I find it really useful when I in a period run into badbeats, because my 'all in equity'-graph shows how it should look without being outsucked (shows expected winnings), therefore I always know my desicion is right and the only right thing to do is keep on grinding.


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