Longest Losing Streak? :( |
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Posted Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:37 pm GMT by viking75ft
What's your longest losing streak? How did you overcome it? Was it askill/technique issue? Just plain bad luck( if there is such)? Just an extended Tilt? I could go on and on....
So far I'm going on a streak that has lasted for nearly 3 1/2 weeks....
It started right after placing 2nd in a $20 SNG at Stars banking a nice ~$768 prize.
Have placed ITM (barley) and won 1 45 hand 1.20 a few days after....but nothing since....
time to quit, read more, or suck it up and keep trying?
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Posted Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:34 pm GMT by BigSlick34
My longest streak was about a month and a half. It as well came right off winning a 300 man tourny of a 5$ buy in. I did notice myself playing overly aggressive as I felt i needed to to build my stack. This was partially because of the website i was on and just personal beliefs. I have to blame it on the luck though yes. I was amazed the number of time i went in with a pp and lower pp sucked out, I changed sites and all is well:)
Posted Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:48 pm GMT by viking75ft
Thanks for the response. I'd have to agree with the over aggressiveness. I have been running the hands over and over. I have started calling donkish and not so donkish early all-ins as to "double-up". Mainly because I attribute the short stack to not placing first on the the last "big"win. The whole game I hovered below average stack and played tighter than jimmys hat band. I went to the finally table and got lucky with some good cards and managed to stay off the bottom...waited them out and made heads up to only be covered 4xs or better.
I've seen some really poor showdowns lately on pre-flop all-in calls.
The ones that haunt me are:
AKsuited-flop ak10...villian pocket 10s
pocket 10s-flop blankblank9....villian pocket 9s
went on tilt the next go-round and called preflop all-in with 53offsuit....lol
flop...55A...villian AK turn and river were blanks....I took the donk insults like a man cause I deserved them....
Posted Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:21 pm GMT by viking75ft
Think I found my answer of post #20442
| QuietOne wrote: | Coin flips early on in a tourney are for weak players who don't have the skill to play real poker. When Daniel Negreanu noticed this at the WSOP and said something, a kid said "That's Poker" Daniel replied, "Poker is a lot of things put this is not one of them"
If you read the book "Kill Phil", that is the whole strategies for bad poker players. Since you can't outplay good players, go all-in and give yourself a chance.
Unfortunately, there are times when all of us are almost compelled to play this stupid way of poker to play at all. |
This makes sense to me because the tourney's I have won or placed in I never pushed or called all-in until ITM or final table. And now thinking back....I probably shouldn't have then either (got busted out that way).
I made it to the money by playing poker and not gambling.....
hmmm.....back to the shed....
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:03 pm GMT by lwestatbus
I'm on a two month streak (I've posted the details eslewhere). 70% bad luck and 30% donk play (one particular flavor of donkishness in particular). I haven't come out of this one yet so I can't report on my technique!!!
The last time this happened the streak ended when the cards finally returned to a more normal distribution.
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:47 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
I've had three consecutive losing months before, during which I donked off an entire $5000 bankroll. From there, I've rebuilt, had about $5500, but had another major losing streak this month and I'm hovering over $4000 now.
Posted Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:15 pm GMT by UrAteUp
I think perhaps I should give up my title to one of you gents..  ...lol.
I can't say what my longest losing streak was. I really slowed way down on my poker playing time. When I did play alot and I found myself losing I went back in and looked at hand histories for that period and compared them to when I was winning. I found my flaws in play and corrected them.
I play where donks run supreme (mini micro-levels), suckouts happen often and the donkiest players swear they out played you even when you got all your money in pre-flop holding AA.
Posted Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:07 pm GMT by shorn7
I lost $12k in 3 days this year. Haven't played since (but I am playing tonight). So, I guess you could say my longest losing streak is 24 days...I.e., January 2007. 
Posted Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:09 pm GMT by MrDarling
12k in 3 days.
ouch. Probably not that much when you play $1000NL, but still, ouch!
btw, I'm still on losing streak since my first online deposit - which was July 2006. But I really can't blame luck on it!
Posted Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:19 pm GMT by JMX360
Probably a month and a half for me.
I decided to switch to the other games (PL omaha, FL omaha hi/lo, stud hi/lo), and I found out I was doing reasonably well. Sometimes it's good to have a change.
Posted Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:42 am GMT by rodders
im enduring my worst losing streak this month only had one profitable session since the new year, so iv given up january taking a small break till the first of feb, dropped around $700
Posted Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:20 am GMT by BeerWench13
6 months. Partial luck, partial bad reads, mostly tilt after the first 3 months or so.
| JMX360 wrote: | | I decided to switch to the other games (PL omaha, FL omaha hi/lo, stud hi/lo), and I found out I was doing reasonably well. Sometimes it's good to have a change. |
This is what I did. I stayed away from NL cash games for nearly 5 weeks. Then I played a live tournament, chopped with the hubby for the win and I've been fine since. When I find myself getting frustrated I go play some 7-Stud. For some reason, NLHE seems so much easier after playing stud.
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