Downswing
How does it look? and how long does it take . what's ur longest downsing (How many hands) and how many Buy-ins u r down
is it possible that u r facing downswing 100k hands maybe just breakeven or lose some
If somebody won after 100k hands can u say he's winning player on his stake he played.
Hello there siwanat99, thank you for your great question!
A Downswing looks very ugly: you will feel yourself the worst player in the world, you will feel you know nothing about poker and should immediately stop.
It is very ugly because we are going to be beat on those sweet spots where we are 60/40, 70/30, 80/20 and even 90/10: we know we are facing a downswing when we are OTT with 80-90%
equity, Villain shoves, we pays and Villain hits whatever OTR, it happens all the time but when we are losing for a long period of time we start to get very sad or angry.
My biggest downswing was 120 K without hitting a flip, my AA, KK who went all-in PF vs trash cracked a lot, no bluffs pass no matter what and if we are not very prepared we want to give everything up.
When we are losing a lot of buy-ins and our winrate seems to be breakeven, we are losing a little bit more then winning, but we should not care for that!
As long as you are not tilted, too much sad or too much angry because you are losing over and over, do not stop playing based on recent results!
Have a solid
bankroll Management is the sole basis for a solid emotional control.
IMO, we can never say a player is a winner at poker if it didn't play at least 1 million hands, because the variance between 10 k hands means nothing, even the most idiot Whale of the world can make huge ammounts of winrate in such a small sample, 100 k hands means that you are beginning to play poker and can have very positive or negative results, but none of them will tell/prove that you are good or bad.
Try to play as serious as you can, take poker as a personal business you are investing time, patience and decicating to achieve success.
If you see you are losing more buy-ins and you cannot control your emotions anymore, please, I strongly recommend you quit playing for at least one week or so, and don't think about poker for a couple of days!
If you moved up to another stake and you are being beat everytime, do not be proud and stop leveling, just move down the poker chain, there is no shame on doing it, it happens with the most successful poker player til students like us, let your ego aside.
Sometimes we face a downswing because we lost emotional control during one session, where we could not forget (our ego keeps telling on our heads to try to recover our losses, when we have nothing to recover), and then every session we enter with wrong thought process, we are going to lose.
Identify which spots/situations causes you to lose control and stop on the first sign of emotional disturbance. We need to be as cold as ice to be playing poker or not at all, we go for Netflix or Video-Games to relax.
This is a very large and complex subject, I am just at the top of the iceberg here, but I hope it helps you. If you have anything to ask, please do not hesitate!
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa