Downswing Fluctuations

[Vatrlrman]

I saw this on another forum about downswings:

4 Tabling*65 hands/hour*5 hours a day=1300 hands a day. 50,000 hands means you could go 38 days for a downswing.

If that was me I would take up stamp collecting. Am I wrong?

Another answer:

So you have a .001% chance of losing after 50,000 in this scenerio. Thats more to my thinking.

I play 700 hands a day on average. My longest losing streak has been 4 sessions in a row in the last 12 months. Playing limit full ring games.

What is your longest losing streak as far as sessions are concerned and what do you consider normal? Purposely trying to avoid actual money loses since we all play different levels

[GeoffM]

I'm in the middle of day 3, out almost $100, 5% of my bankroll, these past few days. Today is the worst. I am getting primo hands and flops are hitting raggy hands.

[PShabi]

I've gone 20,000 hands. It happens to the best of them, and it happened to me too.

When I was less experienced and riding high, I thought people who spoke of these downswings were inferior players.

Ummmmmm, no.

If you play, you will experience it. It's not fun.

[junYUN]

i go on big spikes, i just have to realize them -- usually they end up being a glitch in your play. no way you could go through 20k hands just because of "bad luck." at least IMO...

just got out of a funk where i lost about 25% of my roll in a week, but good thing it came after i quadrupled my bankroll in a couple weeks..