hi hi everyone!!!
please how long lasts a "downswing"?
i play now 2 years & it never ends lol

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Originally Posted by KristaK

hi hi everyone!!!
please how long lasts a "downswing"?
i play now 2 years & it never ends lol

If your losing after that long you have some serious studying to do. You have to want it bad. learn how not to over play and also relearn how to chip manage and pot control. play as much as you can near or on the button and never all in pre unless you got aces kings. depends on you how long this downswing last really. Study and use the losses to fuel your future wins.

Originally Posted by KristaK

hi hi everyone!!!
please how long lasts a "downswing"?
i play now 2 years & it never ends lol

I am the same had a small loss in 2019 and 2020 two bad years even though at times have won many large sums during those years,
Poker is not easy when you factor in buy ins,rake attrition,currency transfer fees,variance then sprinkle a good dollop of human error in there too becomes tricky in the long run even if play good poker still easy to lose at a distance,
But like previous posters said study your games in depth to see if you can make any improvements embrace and learn by the failures.
Maybe start a challenge thread with no deposits allowed for a few weeks or months and withdraw minimum allowed whenever you got double the minimum withdrawal amount on a poker site leaving some there to play with in the meantime.
Whenever I go into this freeroll only and withdraw mode from time to time while not as exciting as playing the buy in risk it for a biscuit and deposit higher stakes it works though downswing stops and small upswings happen.
Post some interesting hands or questions about cheaper raked sites,smaller processor fees or no fees for example even also better promotions and rewards if shop around too on different poker sites.
Other members might be helpful and give you a different perspective on your overall approach to the game KristaK nobody is perfect good luck in your games this year.

Originally Posted by hugh blair

I am the same had a small loss in 2019 and 2020 two bad years even though at times have won many large sums during those years,
Poker is not easy when you factor in buy ins,rake attrition,currency transfer fees,variance then sprinkle a good dollop of human error in there too becomes tricky in the long run even if play good poker still easy to lose at a distance,
But like previous posters said study your games in depth to see if you can make any improvements embrace and learn by the failures.
Maybe start a challenge thread with no deposits allowed for a few weeks or months and withdraw minimum allowed whenever you got double the minimum withdrawal amount on a poker site leaving some there to play with in the meantime.
Whenever I go into this freeroll only and withdraw mode from time to time while not as exciting as playing the buy in risk it for a biscuit and deposit higher stakes it works though downswing stops and small upswings happen.
Post some interesting hands or questions about cheaper raked sites,smaller processor fees or no fees for example even also better promotions and rewards if shop around too on different poker sites.
Other members might be helpful and give you a different perspective on your overall approach to the game KristaK nobody is perfect good luck in your games this year.

hi hi hugh!!!
thanks for the advice
much appreciated
hugs
krista

I think when registering for poker stars i ended up in the lower pool from which i can't get out and i lose most of the flips at a long distance

I had not played poker for a while and then started again in July 2019. I think I know how you feel. Ever since I started playing again on Poker Stars I just have not been able to catch a break, and its really been quite depressing but thank goodness I play other online rooms as well because I’m at least increasing my bankrolls in the other 3 locations I’m playing. So that helps morale a lot for me.

If you are not playing at a few different online poker rooms already, maybe give that a shot. I think it kind of gives a mix of variance in each location, but sometimes I have had horrible variance in all locations at once and visa versa with all locations being awesome at once (with the exception of Poker Stars LOL . I’m sure it will change one day for me there too!!

Good Luck and I hope you can change your stars!!

Originally Posted by Maxmustdie

I think when registering for poker stars i ended up in the lower pool from which i can't get out and i lose most of the flips at a long distance

I agree with you GeckoAA think below might be some reasons why players find Pokerstars extra tough though at times,
One thing I noticed Max since I stopped playing as much on Pokerstars is that it is easier to get rakeback and rewards on sites like GGpoker, partypoker,ACR,Unibet and many others for example without needing to rush in time for a deadline so you can take your time no pressure.
All these little payments add up on the other poker sites on Pokerstars I got no rakeback.








The rake is less too especially under $20 buy ins which might be having a serious impact on many players in the long run.
Pokerstars wanted me to pay 2k rake then get back $800 with only a month to do it in forcing you to high variance play hypers and turbo type poker if any chance of clearing it,
I never cleared it tried all year in 2020 putting in a lot of volume as have a day job and family to look after too time was scarce,

While yes Pokerstars it is still a good fun site and they do have some other fun challenges
and they are great with all the freerolls they provide to the CardsChat community,
I think rakeback though is very important in the long run,
I found it very hard to clear it without ruining my bankrolls by rushing all the other sites have much easier to achieve targets and I get something back regularly think I am way better off a couple of dollars rolling in constantly instead of sorry month is up you get nothing for that $1000 rake you paid this month as you did not pay enough.

That depends on, how much you play. In cash games it is possible for a marginal winning player to have losing streaks as long as 100.000 hands. With tournaments it depends on the field size, but lets just say 1.000 tournaments. So if you only play 20 or 40 tournaments per month, that is actually more than 2 years. However if you are down a significant amount over such a large sample, then you are probably not a winning player. And in that case either play for fun, find some other games or study and improve

Wait! And the main thing is to forget about kilopoles, at least for a while, the spread over them is really insane, here you need to have a 500-600 BI bankroll, but there are no nerves at all. Play tournaments with caps, multi-table SNGs and MTTs in weak rooms where there are few people. If you have a skill, you will definitely need it!