One of the facts of life for a poker player is that you're going to go through slumps. They're unavoidable. Though you don't have a choice about going through them, you do have a choice about what your attitude is going to be. The best thing about slumps is that they're survivable. The more slumps you survive, the better you'll be able to adopt a philosophical attitude toward them, and the better you'll be able to survive future slumps. Last night, I lost my full starting stack of $40,000 again. I've only won two of my last eight sessions. This clocks in at number 5 on my all time list of eight session cash game no limit hold'em slumps:
-330862 2011-06-16 2011-06-28 (2)
-319600 2011-06-11 2011-06-23 (3)
-290862 2011-06-20 2011-08-13 (2)
-278562 2011-06-13 2011-06-24 (3)
-268409 2013-05-19 2013-05-26 (2)
Just as I try to refrain from predicting how long my winning streaks will last, I also try to refrain from predicting when I'll break out of a slump. The most explicit answer I can come up with right now to the question of when I'll break out of my current slump is "soon" :-)
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 68 hands and saw flop:
- 10 out of 11 times while in big blind (90%)
- 7 out of 10 times while in small blind (70%)
- 21 out of 47 times in other positions (44%)
- a total of 38 out of 68 (55%)
Pots won at showdown - 2 of 8 (25%)
Pots won without showdown - 6
delta: $-40,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $4,948,639
balance: $7,398,047
