Hi dere,

I'm hopefully a familiar face on this board - I'm not an absolute beginner but I'm still learning every day and I think my experiences, over 70,000 hands or so, might be useful to other beginners.

I've just done my sums, and until last Thursday, when I had a positive session, I was on an ELEVEN BUYIN UNINTERRUPTED DOWNSWING. Now, I'm sure it wasn't all bad luck; I hadn't played for a while due to holidays and was rusty, plus there's the tilt effect to think about - it's hard to lose buyin after buyin without being negatively affected in some way.

The thing is, I'm a consistently winning player - only 6BB/100 over my entire poker career but at least that's in the black. Fortunately I was playing (well) within my BR at a stake I was comfortable at - I didn't chase my losses, I didn't move up stakes to make it back - and as a result was able to turn it round and make back 5 of those buyins over the weekend.

Anyway, just thought I'd share.