maybe 30 mins or so. Huck down about 12BB at the end I think. Said he was going to come back to try to drum up a game again tonight, but a bit earlier.

Game on (again)!

curious who bixiu is with the chat that's going on.

jkwizzle, grillarock, and fgt4w at 300/600...who's the fish???

don't know but i consider jkwizz and fgt4w to be 1 and 2 out of the 3...

YOWZA kwizzle vs grilla 500 1k aorn

wow it was 5 handed at 500 1k 2 fish came and hit and ran for about 9k earlycry played 1 hand lost 2k and left now jk and grilla battling hu after losing good amount to hit and runners jk killing it hu though

KWADZ, BITCHES:

fgt is the illest hu razzer

I keep trying to hit the RAISE button, but it just makes the picture bigger...

Set mining opportunity, imo.

Play it strong and hope for a software error that lets you use all 4 cards imo.

What is grilla's story? He used to play much lower but now sits at super high stakes all day by himself.

Finally broke the freefall last night and booked a winning session, albeit a small one...+$20 over 110 hands of 3/6 stud.

Sorry to hear about your demise at FTP. I was wondering why I hadn't seen you playing there lately. Hopefully, you'll be able to climb back up onto the horse.

ZOMG KWADZ AGAIN:

It's slightly more common to get dealt quads than AA23ds (12 ways to make AA23ds, 13 ways to make quads)

I've never had AA23ds!!! Oh, that's a ratio, not combinations...

No it's the number of combinations. There are 13 ways to get dealt quads PF, and 12 ways to get dealt AA23ds, sort of like how there are 4 ways to get dealt AKs. There are so many omaha hands though that you won't see either very much.

227 big bet downswing. Marvellous. I never know how to cope with these doom swings, this is probably the 4th or 5th of my time playing. Play more, play less, play different games, play the same game? Quit altogether? Withdraw money and go back to grinding up again? Play more tournaments or fewer tournaments (my ROI has gone from 82% to 57% in the last two months)? Cuddle your laptop or throw it through the window? Become an alcoholic? Anyone who suggests 300 big bets is an adequate bankroll for limit poker is living on a different planet. 600 minimum.

Well, people who tell you 300bb is enough expect you to move down when you have only 300bb for the next level down (or some variation of this). It's not that they're saying you can play with a 300bb BR forever and never move down.

I wish I could tell you what to do. Personally, I try to do something else. I also tend to *try* to play less. Playing unhappy isn't going to help, feeling destined to lose isn't either. Avoiding results oriented behavior is of course a good idea but you can probably do yourself a favor and let yourself book a few wins, even if it means quitting before you might otherwise. I think for some people it can help get their confidence back, plus when you are losing for weeks, then have a good session start and are up 15bb but then keep playing and end up down, it can really cause a lot of self-recrimination, much more so than if you've been running "normal".

I also drink more.

P.S. might not be true for everyone, but I like taking a Real Vacation from poker, i.e. forbidding myself to play for a period, and just freakin relaxing. Watching movies, working on hobbies, hanging out with the family, whatever. So I sometimes give myself a non-tilt self-exclusion. It can be very freeing to know it's impossible for you to play.

Beer + fight = anger management



Anyways ... for anyone here who wants to (can ... ) avail of it there is a decent arbitrage going at Betfair.com / Matchbook.com where you can lay Darvin Moon at -395 w/ matchbook (decimal odds 4.95) and back him on BF at upto 5.4 ... it's money and it's free !!!!!!

There are more than 4 ways to get AKs, unless you're not counting AsKs and KsAs as different.

He's not.

The best way to avoid big downswings is to have a high win rate. It makes a dramatic difference in your expected max loss, much moreso then most (certainly I) would guess intuitively.

With that in mind, the best answer to a downswing that is effecting you is to drop down in stakes and / or game select much more rigorously. Your goal is to play fewer games where your winrate is much higher.

-eric

At first I thought the above was worded strangely, but after a couple of readings I think it is really solid advice. Pick your spots. Find some ducks in a barrel and gun them down mercilessly.