Losing Periods

adolfos · Losing Periods

Is it normal to have periods where you lose all the time.
And if I lose, I think I still have to play another one and another one and suddenly you haven't had play 3 games but 10 games und you lost most of them.

And if I win it's so that I'm afraid to lose it again so I play only 3 times and leave by now, though I have a feeling that I play my A-game and that I can win more games.

I think I have to try playing 3-5 times my A-Game even if I lost most of them and then just ending it for the day and hoping that tomorrow I'm not card dead or something else, huh ?

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Brokerstar

In short yes.

How long your stretches will be will depend on how well you play and how profitable your A game is.

adolfos

I think my A-Game is quite profitable. Usually I win 4-1 or something a day.
Not really big for my 3,50-Dollar-Level but anyway.

But if I lose several times in a row my A-Game turns into a "laugh"-game, 'cause villian hits again his hand on the river or I've had him down to 400 chips plus I start thinking "yes you just having luck when you're winning" something like this.

I think I must be disciplined...

U Cook Socks

You are going to have downswings, there isn't a poker player alive that hasn't had one. You can run worse than you can possibly even imagine, however bad you have run, x it by a thousand, and it still probably isn't as bad as it can get.

As Broker said, sticking to the A game is the key. If you say play 100 games, and you run real bad, and probably tilt off 8-10 buyins in that period too, your downswing is going to feel real bad. Where as if you stay focused, and possibly save some of those tilted buy ins you lost, then the damage will be less, leaving you to cream off your run good, which will come at some point.

When you are making a decision in poker, nothing that has happened before matters (obviously in game reads do) but all your losses/wins etc should have no bearing on your decisions. If you have a set, and you get raised on the river by a super station, and there is a flush possible, then you know what you have to do, whether you have won your last 10 games, or lost them.

kierkegaard1

i shouldnt worry, i cant win anymore

U Cook Socks

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