Quote Originally Posted by Renton
Lukie, my comment was basically in jest. I agree with everything you are saying. I'm obviously pretty guilty of complaining about variance, myself. You know this.
yeah I know. FWIW, this post had pretty much nothing to do with you. It's probably hard to tell, but I'm trying to help and not bitch with this post, although there's probably a really, really fine line there.

What I am saying is, its much much easier said than done, and when you are running well, its very easy to make posts like these, because of the general air of optimism that exists in your psyche during these times of greener pastures.

NO ONE here is good enough (by "good enough," i mean "emotionally neutered enough") to go on a two digit buyin downswing and not exhibit even the smallest amount of negative emotion to himself and those that surround him. Its a natural countermeasure that exists within us to validate our own legitimacy as players.
meh, I'm not sure that I necessarily agree with this, but it does sound very cool and I'm sure for that reason it will stick with some people in their minds. I think the ideas are good and they probably apply to most people, but to say NO ONE is emotionally tough enough to avoid this is something that I disagree with.

Keep in mind, that from a $$$ standpoint, I had my worst downswing EVER this month. I've had worse in terms of % and worse in terms of buyins though.

I'm not going to lie and say I was playing perfect poker. I was spewing everywhere, but that was true even before the downswing started. Was I frustrated, possibly tilting at times? Yup. Did I complain to the whole world about my problems, making the situation 100x worse? Nope. Did I just run away from my problems, letting my game deteriorate? Nope, although I'm not trying to suggest that it's never a good idea, because it's a good last resort I think. I'll tell you what I did do, I sat down and told myself that I need to play better, stop telling myself that I'm the unluckiest SOB alive, and just be an untiltable, unstoppable machine basically. Despite dropping 4 or so buyins tonight, I'm still up over 40 buyins in the last two weeks. I don't even want to think about how badly I could have manged that situation up. I don't want to come off as an arrogant douchebag, but I'd like to believe that some people out there could learn from how I handed this one. I was tempted to chase losses at 10/20, believe me, and even had a decent bankroll for it.