Wow, that's pretty brutal, certainly given the stack sizes...
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Good to see you're back Sonic. Unfortunately you started with some bad luck but you will find your luck back, you lucky fish ♦.
No seriously, just keep playing your A-game and read the articles you missed when u had exams and you will be ok.
BTW I'm back as well 
I'm already gonna take a rebreak I think... it's getting to me. Gonna analyse every single lost hand and see what I did wrong in those spots, though analysis of the first quarter of new hands don't show anything wrong, just bad luck and lots of it.
I deposited 400 € and only 250 € are remaining at this point (including a cleared 65 € bonus), partly due to the hand post on the previous page (ugliest suckout ever), rest due to losing AA a lot, losing the major pots when I was ahead when the money went in etc.
Known players: (for a description of vp$ip, pfr, ats, folded bb, af, wts, wsd or hands click here)
[tg]BU$52.49:///////;BB$7.45:///////;MP2$29.92:///////;CO$39.61:///////;Hero$24.40:///////;MP3$25:///////;[/tg]
0.10/0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Texas Grabem 1.9 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is SB with 7♣, 7♦
MP2 raises to $1.00, MP3 folds, CO calls $1.00, BU folds, Hero calls $0.90, BB folds.
Flop: ($3.25) 7♥, 8♦, 5♦ (3 players)
Hero bets $2.45, MP2 calls $2.45, CO folds.
Turn: ($8.15) T♠ (2 players)
Hero bets $6, MP2 raises to $14.50, Hero raises to $20.95 (All-In), MP2 calls $6.45.
River: ($50.05) T♥
Final Pot: $50.05
Villain showed TT.
That gets to you ... and it's unavoidable I guess.
I'ma reread a lot (that I can) and find new energy on NL10 (kinda forced by the bankroll slashing as well).
I couldn't believe I gotten that much worse over the course of 6 weeks of inactivity and PokerEV agrees (I lost 310 $, shoulda won 65 $ in Sklansky bucks)
Don't tell me that luck evens out in the long run though, it doesn't. Percentually it may decrease over time but the net amount of luck involved losses or gains on average increases over time. Without the luck factor I'd be at NL50 right now 
arrrghh. WHYY. This is bad. Why is your variance so high?? You play cash, that should be safe.
Anyway... a 12 BI downswing isn't very weird. Especially on long sessions these things happen. Of course its more likely to happen if you play LAG. I can't really advice you anything, since this is poker, and it happens. I even think 50 BI swings aren't that exceptional, so maybe moving back is a good idea.
Hope you move up soon, and have more succes in the future.
Hi Sonic,
Sad to hear your downswing continues, but I think it's best to take a break now and read some more articles. Even if it's because bad luck, you just have to chill out and take some time off. Just try to use the time you have now to learn some more and you'll get to NL50 eventually.
Good luck!
It continued until 200 €, then I made a slight recovery to 290 € but dropped back to 240 € thanks to a PokerACE read combined with horrendeous luck.
Today, I would've would've won 60 $ if luck were no factor, but instead I lost 5 $ again. All thanks to a huge, huge fish that pushed with T5o, I called him with QQ only to see a T5xxx board.
I lost another preflop coinflip with AKs vs QQ. Oh, I lost another preflop reraised AA to KT on a KTxxx board as well...
Truely, I'm so sick of this. While I hardly made any EV- decision (uncalled bluffs vs given up bluffs balance eachother out), I'm still losing money. My Skansky buck graph keeps going up and my real winnings graph stays equal or diminishes. Day after day after day.
I check it after every day, rarely I made more money than I should have or have I lost less than I should have (and I almost never have a day where I deserved to lose)...
Too frikkin' sick.
I would seriously recommend you to record some kind of video of your play and maybe spot some leaks. Nobody makes +EV decisions all the time.
Originally posted by Timor83
I would seriously recommend you to record some kind of video of your play and maybe spot some leaks. Nobody makes +EV decisions all the time.
There might be some, but only where I expect an opponent to give me great implied odds or for instance the AK v QQ hand that was slightly -EV overal, but I couldn't avoid.
I never said I was the greatest, but it surely is frustrating to see myself losing when I, luck excluded, should have earned 8BB/100.
But hey, you're the president ♦
I'll record a vid whenever I can or I'm allowed to at your place 
You're the president after all, see :
Originally posted by ajfonso
maybe you loose a lot of cash when you don't see a showdown?
A little nowadays yea. Not too happy about that and I'll try to figure out why that is.
Got my bankroll back up to 320 €, been playing at a sklansky buck showdown rate of 8BB/100 and lose 2.5BB/100 without showdown.
It's good enough rate for the moment I think.
Today luck evened out and I got up 70 $ at cash games (and 30 $ in SNG's)
I guess 70 $ or 50 € should be my normal average winrate per day if I continue playing like this on NL25SH. Can't play 2600 hands every day though ♦
*mod* I'm at 400 € again, my original deposit account. Some blackjack with 20 $ to finish off a nice day and got lucky 
Mèheh, typical, bitch about bad beats at poker and then win 5-6 stack of NL25 games in 20min of blackjack. Irony ...
Why wouldn`t you try short stacking for a while? Fighting the variance with such a short bankroll is not the best thing to do) you can easily climb NL 100 in no time and play higher limits SH afterwards. Its all about building your bankroll, imo.