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Message: [QUOTE="KyleJRM, post: 944119, member: 25910"] A downswing is a statistical probability. Imagine you flip a coin 2000 times. The odds of each coin flip are 50/50 between heads and tails. Even though it's 50/50, the flips aren't going to alternate HTHTHTHTHTHTHTHT for 2000 flips. Statistically, you are likely to see at least one run of nine straight heads and one run of nine straight tails during your 2000 flips. In poker, you are going to lose money on certain hands (KK vs AA is a common example), and if you play enough hands then you are going to go through stretches where those hands come up inordinately often. That's what a downswing is. [/QUOTE]