Quote Originally Posted by bigboy5540
I've seen charts of very good players have 50k hand break even periods. This is not because they are not winning players, it is due to variance and bad luck, combined with how the hands were played out. After the 50k hands they would continue on at a steady, good win rate.
Yeah but not like a recurring pattern where they run -20ptBB instead of a usual 20ptBB or whatever they have.

Poker is more luck and variance than you think jack, especially at the higher limits.
Yeah but I was talking about the lower limits, where plenty of fish/donks pay you off for the few good hands you get even if you are hitting a relative dry of cards.

The situation I'm talking about is if you, say, always hit a "downswing" after 4 hours of play.. and you keep telling yourself "goddamn I hate these downswings!".. well probably it's not the cards here but you just lose focus if you don't take breaks. If you always keep telling yourself "pf, it's a downswing", imo you blindsight yourself for real problems. Especially if your downswings have a recurring pattern, then it's probably not the cards.