getting through a bad run

[Windbreaker]

No one in particular, but honestly I don't think a lot of the people here know what a bad run is. Until you've put in a ton of volume and gone through massive downswings, you won't fully realize how bad it can get. I imagine most of other people's version of downswings is rather small.

I have gone through swings where it costs me about 150 buy-ins for SNGs, (Turbo multi-table SNGs have a lot higher variance than most games). Part bad luck and part bad play. I know it could have gotten a lot worse, but I also know the more hours I put in, the more likely I'll get out of it ahead.

I typically just play through it. My advice is, if you're going to sit down and play, make the hours mean something. Don't play just for the sake of playing...put in good hours - concentrate, focus, don't let beats knock you down - as long as you made good decisions.

I think one of the things that put people on tilt the most is when they see their cards get run down. One of the things I do often in tourneys is when all the chips go in, I only look to see if I made a correct decision. After I see my opponent cards, I don't even look at how the board runs out. I basically forget about the hand and have already moved onto one of the other tourneys I would be playing at the time.