When losiing streaks hurt..

[ZeeBabar]

How do you inspire yourself to continue? The full time AP has no choice but to continue (sort of like a BOSS being awful to you but what can you do?). Its the part timers, the recreational players and those that can do without BJ income that get thoughts of quitting, of changing counts, of worrying about playing or betting errors (when it just might be variance).

You get a series of 3-4 losing sessions and you start expecting to lose. You had won last month and now you have lost more in the 2-3 weeks this month than you won all of last month. You had won consistently at this store where you always think you can win (and you worried about BO's) and now you have lost at the same store several times in a row. You have been getting great situations like having two max bets out with a dealer up card of 6 and a TC of 5, and a 19 and 20 on each hand, the dealer pulls out an Ace under his 6 and you think he will get 17 (and you still win) but the dealer pulls out a 9 (now he is at 16) and you start counting the money and the dealer pulls out a 5. Ouch!

You begin to think they will not back you off as you are in a $2k hole in a $25 game so you start dropping all cover, now playing the 16's according to count, playing the 2-6 according to count and hitting your bust hands when count calls for it. You start sitting out at the table in a negative count. and you still lose and lose. You find yourself with a ploppy who is betting 2 blacks on the BJ bet and another black on the poker side bet and he is hitting those side bets regularly getting 9 blacks while losing the 2 blacks and still winning and you get tempted to play the poker bet too.

Next day, one part of you wants to go back with more BR and play, another says "dont be a fool, you cant afford to lose any more" and a third says to give yourself time to recover, say a few days, before you resume playing. If you go now, you will try to win it all back in a session and you will end up losing even more of gettng backed off.

So what did you tell yourself after a horrid losing streak?

[RS]

There's nothing wrong with taking a break. I don't think there are many professional APs who completely rely on playing every day or frequently to pay the bills at the end of the month.

[jimmybond007]

If you feel a break may help you then take one. We have all gone through those crushing losing streaks. That's why we size our bankroll and ramps so we won't go bust. The only way to stop a losing streak is to just keep playing.

[SpikeBJ]

The only way to stop a losing streak is to just keep playing.

or to just stop playing. Get back on the horse and trust the math.

[Sharky]

...You have been getting great situations like having two max bets out with a dealer up card of 6 and a TC of 5, and a 19 and 20 on each hand, the dealer pulls out an Ace under his 6 and you think he will get 17 (and you still win) but the dealer pulls out a 9 ...

nope...personally...i'd be thinking, "do i have a gambling problem?....playing H17"

[Jabberwocky]

I tell myself it's all noise. Sooner or later I'll get 'em in my gunsights again.

[Jabberwocky]

All I play are H17ers. I might have problems but gambling is not one of them.

[Freightman]

nope...personally...i'd be thinking, "do i have a gambling problem?....playing H17"

H17 is legislated in my province. I was weaned on it. I've beaten it handily for years. I don't have a gambling problem.

Finished lunch - Time for combat. Banzai.

[Freightman]

How do you inspire yourself to continue? The full time AP has no choice but to continue (sort of like a BOSS being awful to you but what can you do?). Its the part timers, the recreational players and those that can do without BJ income that get thoughts of quitting, of changing counts, of worrying about playing or betting errors (when it just might be variance).

You get a series of 3-4 losing sessions and you start expecting to lose. You had won last month and now you have lost more in the 2-3 weeks this month than you won all of last month. You had won consistently at this store where you always think you can win (and you worried about BO's) and now you have lost at the same store several times in a row. You have been getting great situations like having two max bets out with a dealer up card of 6 and a TC of 5, and a 19 and 20 on each hand, the dealer pulls out an Ace under his 6 and you think he will get 17 (and you still win) but the dealer pulls out a 9 (now he is at 16) and you start counting the money and the dealer pulls out a 5. Ouch!

You begin to think they will not back you off as you are in a $2k hole in a $25 game so you start dropping all cover, now playing the 16's according to count, playing the 2-6 according to count and hitting your bust hands when count calls for it. You start sitting out at the table in a negative count. and you still lose and lose. You find yourself with a ploppy who is betting 2 blacks on the BJ bet and another black on the poker side bet and he is hitting those side bets regularly getting 9 blacks while losing the 2 blacks and still winning and you get tempted to play the poker bet too.

Next day, one part of you wants to go back with more BR and play, another says "dont be a fool, you cant afford to lose any more" and a third says to give yourself time to recover, say a few days, before you resume playing. If you go now, you will try to win it all back in a session and you will end up losing even more of gettng backed off.

So what did you tell yourself after a horrid losing streak?

I scratch my balls.
For you, you should

https://youtu.be/7nqcgUDoV_M

[Ustonzen]

Request desktop site freights. Then embed those videos.
Trying to punctuate your point with a blue alphabet mess of a link works as well as moses' counting columns

[Gronbog]

Heh -- Freighter is getting a taste of his own medicine.

[Jabberwocky]

All I play are H17ers. I might have problems but gambling is not one of them.

I play tables that allow multi holes at the house minimum.

[Freightman]

Heh -- Freighter is getting a taste of his own medicine.

Nu, what medicine is that?