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AdamSkylark:
In regards to have good streaks and suddenly not being able to do a thing right I know about that. I"ve just gotten over a 2 month losing streak where seemingly everything I did was destined to be beat. I even wrote to pokerplayer magazine at the start of this unlucky streak as I was consistantly bubbling in tournaments. Thankfully the cards seem to make sense again and My pocket kings are no longer losing to 92 suited on a regular basis. WAHEY

IHASTHENUTS:
Standard.

Ive seen people win upto 800k in one year, only to lose it all to huge streaks by not exersizing proper bankroll managment (KEY!). The chance of you going broke if you exersize proper bankroll managment is next to zero (obviously there arent infinately small stakes but you get the idea).

Theres also the idea of GOOD TILT, we all get bad tilt, but good tilt is calling with bad odds when your running hot which obviously means you wont profit in the long run.

I have suffered huge swings, followed by tilt and destroyed my whole roll. I have let stuff goto my head I was +5k the start of this year (considering im a student thats a hella lot of money) then i spent it all, didnt  use any of it towards my roll now im building back up, cudda been playing much higher stakes right now.

But seriously, if you can say that your up overall, over a long period of time. You can analyse your game, tell yourself why you played bad and stop blaming the fish, then you are a winning player in the longrun, its not what you can achieve over the short run that counts.

Ash.

jon_garrett:
I think most people have been through a similar situation where things go well for a while, it seems like you make the money all the time etc... What happens then as other people have alluded to is that you loosen your starting requirements, play a lot more hands in bad spots and expect to hit them or be able to outplay your opponent after the flop. When it doesn"t happen it"s called "bad luck" instead of what it is which is bad play.

Having been through this myself I found that taking time off from playing all together (maybe a month or so) allowed me to "forget" my winning streak and get back to what I was doing in the good times and quickly I started to be successful again.

One other thing I do is look back at the end of each tournament and try to pick a few key hands to review (in detail!). In particular I look at how I played them, how the other person, people played them and try to come up with an alternative scenario that would have improved the outcome from my point of view. Sometimes this may be that I think I could have won a hand I actually lost, other times it might be that I should win more or lose less. By doing this regularly I find that the same kinds of situations come up over and over again and that while there aren"t necessarily right and wrong ways to play them there are certainly better and worse. This has been invaluable to me and I find myself having better results in those situations.

Oh, and by the way, make lots of notes when doing this so you can refer to them later!

Good luck

Jon

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