I'm still fairly new to this, so this is likely a common occurrence for you cash game players that you've learned to deal with, and I'm sure you've had far worse. This is the first truly rough run in such a condensed space of time that I've experienced. I know beats happen, and getting money in good is only a positive thing, but practically are there ways of coping with this? I'm just annoyed with how well I've been doing and now down so many buy-in's that will take so long to claw back. Do you guys take a break for a day or two. Usually the next day I'm raring to go again, but still feeling this today.

This all happened over a period of 3 or 4 minutes playing on 2 zoom tables. A bit of tilt on hands 4 and 6 but still tough to take.

I'd been dealt AA, KK & AK a total of 12 times throughout the session according to pt4 up to this point, I raise first in each of them, folds back round to me every time, already thinking it's not my night as this seems very unlikely to happen getting no action.

Hand 1: KK vs AA all-in pre. No obvious read to suggest AA. Lose.

Hand 2: As7s. Hero BTN vs BB (known bad player) call his 3B. Flop: J73 rainbow, 1 spade. Villain CBets 33%, I call. River 5s (4 spades). He bets 1/2 pot, I jam. He calls shows KsQs. He is behind vs my pair and drawing dead on his flush vs mine. Run twice. 1st River: Kh, 2nd River: Qc. Lose.

Hand 3: KK vs AA all-in pre. Again, no obvious indication that vs AA. Lose.

Hand 4: QQ vs KA all-in pre. It's a flip I know, ran twice, K on first board, A on second. Lose.

Hand 5: AA vs KK all-in pre. He hits a K. Lose.

Hand 6: QQ. Hero BTN vs SB, he 3Bets, I 4Bet, he calls. Flop Q98 rainbow. He leads 1/3 pot, I jam (no way he calls JT 4B I think) he calls and shows JTo. Lose.

What do you guys do to ease the sting of these sorts of situations? The timeframe of it made it much worse I'm sure.

I like to smoke weed and masturbate. Just being honest.

Downswings will always happen, and they get way-wayyyy worse. One thing that helped me back in the day was never playing with more than 2% of my bankroll. If you've got another 49 bullets then a few losing sessions doesn't feel so bad.

+1 to doing things to relax, especially important to keep it up when times get stressful. I also enjoy yoga, buddy took me to his class a few times and now I do some of the poses at home before my sessions.

Also, don't play online it's rigged.

I've never run bad in my life