Idk what i should do
I feel like ive lost it... seriously ive racked up a $300 downswing in like 4 days. Officially my biggest and quickest downswing ever, my roll's back in ruins on $716 and i'm just SO frustrated. Ive had 5 cash sessions in a row of loss, totally ruining my 25NL graph and bankroll in the process. There've been some truly horrible spots, like my KK running into a set of 3's while deepstacked, my AA being cracked by AQo all-in pre (he 5bet shove.. wtf) etc... today i just had literally the worst player in the world at my table. He opens J6s to 50 cents and i 3bet my KK to $2, which he calls OOP. Flop comes T34 and he donks 75 cents, which i raise to $2.50 and he snapcalls with nothing. Turn is a 6, he donks again for 50 cents this time, and calls when i raise to $4. The river is a jack, and i stack off to drop a whole buy-in... it just makes my blood boil. I'm so angry that i would hit $1000 and be running so well, and then in such a short space of time it's turned around so abruptly. My graph is horrible, pokertracker looks horrible whenever i open it up... UGH just WHY does this have to happen -___-
Is this is any way at all standard because im seriously starting to question whether any of the "hard work" i did to get $1000 was by virtue of skill at all... ive come out of 5 sessions of absolute misery and dropped like 30% of my roll. Help!
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it was the 30% part that was bumming me so hard, not the fact that it was 5 sessions in loss. 10 buy-ins in such a short space of time just freaked me out i guess, but ive slept on it and i think ive levelled my head again. Made a buy-in today - nothing special but its a start...
Ok so totally scratch that, the coolers just won't stop.
QTo opens from UTG+1 to 75 cents. I make it $3 on the button with AA, and it folds around to him, who tanks and makes the call. The flop comes T83 rainbow, he donks $1.25 and calls my raise to $5. Turn is another T, he checks and so i sigh and check back. The river is another T, he shoves his last $6 and i call, how can i do anything else.
Then i get JJ, put in a 3bet over someone and the button 4bets me to $8. I decide to stop n' go since im OOP, so i flat call, flop undercards and shove into his AA of course. Another buy in dropped.
Regardless, im still at the table with the total fish who's having the run of his life, he called a 3bet on the button with 9c 6c, flopped a flush and got three streets of betting out of it, with i think a shove on the end. I got my stack up into the $40 region with the intention of taking the idiot down once and for all. I was getting pocket pairs over and over on the button... 22, 77 etc, but just couldnt catch that set.
Then i got 44, that's right, my biggest losing hand. I open it to $1, and the fish comes along from the SB. The flop comes 347 with two hearts, and he donks 25 cents at me. I raise him to 1.25 and lead 3.50 or so on the blank turn, and stack off with his 65o... board doesnt pair on the river, and another cooler goes the fish's way. I left the session -$84, with the fish sitting on $100 at the table having run at 43/8 and just played hands totally horribly. I know he's stacking off with any two pair combos there, as well as overpairs and combo draws... its just so sick. Having cracked $1000 i now have $657 left, and my $0.10/$0.25 cash game run has been brought back to level. I think i'm probably gonna take some days off from cash games, i'll play some MTTs and play cash games on full tilt and return some other time to see about a recovery of some sort -_-
You have to leave room for swings. Most players don't understand that before 2003 most even big pro's wouldn't play no limit because of the swings.
Adjusting your game may be the wrong thing to do because you may just be a bit unlucky, but tell me this, would you rather be lucky or good?
take less chances and make sure you have proper odds for the calls you're making, but from what you're saying its an experience we all have over and over again.
if only 5 losing sessions has your ego so destroyed that you're willing to give up the game, you need to go back to playing chess with the school kids and stay away from the big boys tables.