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Message: [QUOTE="EvoFQ450, post: 1811138, member: 83914"] I play MTTs on Carbon with average buy-in of approx. $15 (they are actually $2/$3/$4 re-buys). I have a steadily increasing graph and am currently @ 98.2 percentile of Carbon players. I recently had a pretty bad downswing though. I lost about 50 net buyins over about 200 games. I can't remember the last time I felt that depressed. But looking back and trying to be honest with myself, I can see that I had gotten cocky and wasn't playing my normal game. I felt invincible and was playing very loose and fast. I finally was able to admit this to myself about 1/2 way through the drought, but my results didn't improve, now due to just normal variance and not my playing as poorly any more, although rarely would I say I play perfect poker. Anyways, this was really depressing and I start feeling like "dammit what do i gotta do to get out of this!?" since I was now playing much better. By this time, my confidence has taken a pretty huge hit and wasn't what it was normally. BUT I JUST TRIED HARDER. I kept the TV OFF when I was playing to be able to concentrate. I would take my time on every decision. I stopped calling things I shouldn't, rationalizing to myself "well they're so dumb and playing so ridiculous, that I'll probably win anyways, so what the hell..let's go for it!" Finally, this re-commitment to more disciplined play has started to pay off and I have gotten those 50 buy-ins back, and am trying my damnedest (?) to keep it going. What I have learned from all this is that it's really important to play your best ALL the time. B/c when you don't and you start dropping, you may not be able to just turn it back on so easily. One more thing. Believe it or not, I think multi-tabling (only as many as you're comfortable with) has also helped, because I don't have the time to be raising UTG with KQs, so I tend to avoid some trouble that I might get into if I was only playing 1 table, getting bored and looking for something to do...(like play dumb hands out of position). Okay guys..my novel is over! Sorry I wrote so much, but this is as much for me as you guys as I am going to save this to remind myself of what I need to do if this ever happens to me again. GL everyone!! [/QUOTE]

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