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[QUOTE="Poker Orifice, post: 7014366, member: 33113"]
It's normal to lose when playing tournaments.  But in the long'ish' run, the better players will always come out ahead.  There's still money to be won in MTT play.  This format attracts more recreationals (& bad players) than cash games.

Years ago (when I was a micro stakes MTT player online), I saved up 23  $26 tokens on Fulltilt, thinking at the time that I'd perhaps cash in 1/3 or more of them and maybe get some great scores! (they had large guarantees on their $26 tournaments).  I mean the first one I played prior to this I won over $1,000 and got on the final table, and then my next one I won ~$500.   Seemed so easy!
Well I blanked all 23 games :(    They were decent-structured games and at the time I was 2-tabling at the most (more likely 1 table while playing a $26 buyin).   What I didn't realize at the time was  a)  I sucked at poker (yes I could beat micros SnG's & MTT's but even in Low stakes I was way outclassed but I didn't even know it yet)   b)  It is normal to lose & losing 10 in-a-row (without cashing) is not unusual at all.
fwiw, I played satellites to acquire those $26 tokens and I was good at them (I should've stuck to satellites... back then there were low stakes MTT players who were able to earn a living by predominantly playing satellites and nothing else), starting out with ~$50 so it wasn't all terrible but was a BIG eye opener for me on some of the realities of tournament poker (& poker in general)
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