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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1428239, member: 40397"] 1. By practicing proper BRM. 2. By not being results oriented, i.e. being confident that you made the right play regardless of the outcome. Of course it takes practice, study, and skill to know what the right play is, and even then you don't always get it right, but the point is that's the goal you strive for. Moreso than winning (or not losing) a stack. Losing a single stack (or even several stacks) should not concern you if you're practicing both of those. Over time, losing a lot of stacks without winning at least as many tends to indicate a leak(s) in your game that you should work on. The good news thought is that plugging those leaks and/or getting lucky at the right time can quickly reverse your loses, much quicker than in LHE. Personally, from Oct 2009 through mid-Feb I went on a 30+BI ($1500+) downswing at 50NL, over a fairly small sample of 25-30K hands (I wasn't playing nearly as much then as now). WVHillbilly, a fellow CCer, offered to do a sweat session and go over my stats with me, helping me to identify some leaks. Taking his advice, my swing immediately reversed course and if I can sustain it, I'm on track to recover my losses within probably another month or so, maybe even sooner now that I'm putting in heavier volume (1-2k hands per day) and now get rakeback since the first of the year (over $100 in RB earned just this week). If it weren't for a brutal 5.5BI bad session on Saturday, I would be up every day in March. I didn't let that bad session tilt me, and over the next two sessions made most of it back. I've also since joined Stoxpoker and Cardrunners (again thanks to the increased volume and freepokertraining.com) and have been download/watching videos like crazy. Next step after I've reached maybe 50K more hands, again based on a recommendation from WVH, is to pay a stats coach/expert to go over my HEM DB with me, kind of like what WVH did but much more intensely. All of this to reach point #2 above, i.e. striving to always make the right decisions, regardless of outcome. I feel confident that if I'm making the +EV decisions, the immediate outcome doesn't matter much and the long-term outcome will take care of itself. As others have pointed out, if you have a prolonged downswing, once you do start running better it will typically take a much longer time to dig yourself out of that hole in LHE compared to NL. [/QUOTE]

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