Cash games has always been my main source of poker incomes. But in the las 10 days, I'm down 1100$ in cash games (I play NL50 thats 22 buy ins in 10 days). On the other hand SNGs and MTTs has keep my boat floating during that period and I have a lot of succes especialy in STTs. I'm up near 1000$ in that same period playing 33$ and 22$ SNGs.

Should I stay away from CG for a while and play more STTs even if I'm 90% sure that my SNGs success and CG misfortunes are mainly due to variance and bad luck?

KJ

I've been in similar situations to this. 22 BI is ALOT, there's gotta be some tilting in there somewhere. I had a big downswing in both CG and tourneys a while ago and decided to cut down on my play, while reading alot of books, reading the forums and posting etc. basically studying poker a bit more. I still played but only the odd tourney every now and then. For me, tourneys let you relax a bit more with the knowledge that you aren't gonna drop multiple buyins (assuming no rebuys) and I found myself playing alot better cos I knew that if I was gonna make money in these tourneys I would have to play some good poker, I couldn't win one big hand and leave.

What I did really worked for me and since I did this I have gone back to cash and have been pretty damn proud of how I've handled the swings and enjoy it so much more. I reckon I am 100% better now than I was 3-4 months ago due to this.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by WotaWaster

If you dropped 22 buy ins at NL$50 full ring that is a hell of a swing. I think it's very unlikely that is due purely to variance. I don't mean this to sound harsh, I know you are a winning player but I would bet you are making alot of mistakes and possibly tilting to lose this much.

When This happens to me I usually like to tilt off a few more buy ins playing through it until I eventually dish out a couple of bad beats and start to play my A game again. The better advice would probably be stick to tournies for a while or to take a break from poker for a few days.

Honestly Wota I cant figure its only due to variance neither... That said, I cant see I'm doing that wrong! (ok 1-2 buyins due to pure tilt) The most unusual is that I hit an amazingly high number of
monster hands in that period. AA, KK way more than I should have... Sets, Flushes etc etc...

I didn't post them cause it obvious to me that I made the right move, but I got 2 nut flushes beaten by Str8 flushes in that period as well.

Set over set, I cant even count them!

That said, I will follow your advices and Davidab's and I will quit the game for a while and read back some good old poker stuff... ahhhh ok! Maybe I'll play a few MTTs on the road!

KJ