Every player, no matter how good, will experience a downswing at some point. Some players regularly have them.
Handling a bad run of luck is just one more skill that you must learn in order to be a winning player. Yes, it looks like I am yet again saying that losing is a part of winning.
Handling how you lose can in itself be profitable – or at least not you should not make as uch of a loss than if you do not handle it properly.
So what to do when you are having no luck at the table and anything that can go wrong seems to do so?
Some players swear by taking a complete break from the tables. Totally walk away and forget about it. If you are a professional player then you probably don’t have the luxury of stopping playing for a while. But you can’t continue playing and put a big hole in your bankroll, or worse, lose it entirely.
If for whatever reason you cannot not play, then there are a few other things that you can do.
Personally, I think that there is no use in walking away – how then will you know when your luck has turned good again? I prefer to play through it
Anyway, strategies for playing though a downswing can include changing games. If you are primarily a Texas Hold’em player then maybe you could try Omaha Hold’em. Having to adjust to a new game and learn a different strategy may take you out of a particular playing pattern that you are unaware of but is causing problems.
You could try changing down the stakes that you play at. Sometimes, if I am having a bad night, but it’s in isolation and not a bad night in a series of bad nights, I will go up in the stakes. This can have the effect of tightening up your game. That is a high risk strategy though and has cost a lot of money when it didn’t work.
If you are a low stakes player and like it that way, you could try moving to a different poker room. Aside from a change in software, and having the advantage that no player will have any notes on you, you could also get a nice deposit bonus to help with your depleted bankroll.
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