I've tried pretty much everything and nothing has worked. I can honestly say I played my A game today and I still dropped 70 big bets tonight. It's hard to imagine this is possible, but I'm stuck about 450 big bets in the last 2 weeks and I've lost over 10 sessions in a row.

I just kept getting coolered today, either I was hitting hands and betting the flop and everyone folded or I was getting my big hands cracked by even better hands. Now, I know as well as anyone that this kind of crap happens all the time and obviously I've grown to accept that and I think I stay off tilt as well as anyone, but this constant losing is really getting to me. I just don't know when it's going to end if ever and if it doesn't end, I'm not going to have much of a bankroll left. Considering I do this for a living, this is just the worst thing imaginable at the present time.

The frustrating thing is I was playing really well and making very good reads, close value bets, losing the minimum on the cooler hands and the cards were just spitting in my face. I mean I don't just have losing sessions, I have huge losing sessions. I've had a couple sessions of -100 big bets and a lot of -50 big bet sessions. Just nothing is going well, I picked up Aces 5 times tonight and won once with them and that was taking just the blinds.

I'm not looking for any sympathy or nothing like that, I'm just posting this to get it off my chest and for you guys to realize this is not an easy way to make a living. I'd been cruising for over a year, winning consistently and never having a losing month and spending money lavishly, pretty much a lifestyle that was big time for a college kid. Now in a span of 10 days, I'm in the worst slump ever imaginable and who knows when it'll end.

I don't know though, I guess I'll really find out if I have what it takes to be a pro by seeing how I overcome this. It's just crazy how I can lose in 2 weeks what takes months and months to build even when playing within bankroll, damn I'm a pretty sick person to be doing this for a living.

-sigh- (of understanding and empathy, not irritation)

It happens.

Drop down in stakes a couple levels, get your confidence back up, maybe?

If it's questioning your confidence to the point that you (a respected and experienced poster) need to post this, I really think that can affect your game on subliminal and unquantifiable levels.

Take a break, play 10k hands at lower stakes. Remind yourself that you really are a tight aggressive player who makes bank exploiting the mistakes of weaker fish.

jay,

if you do this for a living, you should have money set aside for extenuating circumstances, no?

i ran really terribly recently and decided to take a two-week break. i can tell you that it's helped immensely and that i've booked some pretty winning sessions since.

it might be just a week for you, or maybe even half a week, but i think breaks are severely underrated. you should also note that my normal game was 5/10 ring or 3/6 six, but after my break i've been doing nothing but 2/4 ring, 2/4 six and *occasionally* 3/6 ring. when the money matters less, it is much less stressful.

good luck. you'll get through it, we all do.

aseem

Unfortunately, I'm not exactly the best at managing money, so I've spent a lot of my money on lots of useless things and don't have a whole lot in savings. My bankroll is crippled, but not all gone. Thankfully, I have a big cushion as far as bankroll goes or I'd have gone bust already. I'll probably have to step down and build it back up. I guess this is a lesson that money management is just as important as bankroll management. This bad run has just been amazing though, it's like I keep dropping a grand every couple hours I play.

I've tried playing different games, tournaments, but it's all the same results. I'd love to be able to take a break, but bills need to get paid at the end of the month, so I can't exactly afford to do that right now. I did take this past weekend off and I actually felt really refreshed but it didn't make much of a difference. I've dropped down in limits already, so really the money doesn't bother me, it's just the constant losing thats getting to me.

Get a part time job, so you can play without having to worry about making a given amount.

Played any low level NL?

A part-time job is pretty pointless when your making maybe 2-3 hundred dollars a week when I normally make that in a few hours. I really don't know how I'm going to go back to some job that pays like 10 dollars an hour when I'm accustomed to making about 50 an hour.

I haven't really played much No Limit and I usually don't unless there's a bigger game like 10/20 NL with lots of live ones in it at a B&M. Maybe I'll give some 2/4 or 3/6 NL a try, it might do some good.

5/10 is about the lowest I can play where I can still make some kind of income on a temporary basis, if I had to move any lower I'd definitely need a new job.

I've made something like $30/hr for the past 3 months mostly playing .50/1 NL. :-)

Just a suggestion.