Hi folks.

We all go through bad runs, and those of us who've played for 3 or 4 years at least will probably have hit "the" nightmare run, when the whole "you will at some point run worse than you ever thought possible" hits, which can kind of shake your confidence and stuff.

Well, welcome to my 2007. Although I play various different levels (100 up to 500 buyins regularly) I'm basically the equivalent of 15 buyins down in Jan (yep that's 6 days) .

It's disturbing but strangely I'm not too suicidal. I just worry that if it continues it'll start to shake my confidence and my interest and I'll end up quitting (at least for a while), which I don't want to do because a) I'd like to make some money this year and b) this is the dullest time of the year here - nothing much going on, weather's crap, it's dark when I go to work and dark when I go home etc. - there's not a lot to do many nights except play poker, and last year when I had a short break of 3 or 4 months not playing (and partly due to a variety of other external reasons and personal stuff I won't go into here) I found myself listless and at a bit of a loose end, which didn't help too much with some personal problems I was having (i.e. I had about a month of being hopelessly depressed). Anyhow I'm not too worried about that now, it's something I sorted out at the time, but it's all not helping my mood much and having been there before it does concern me a tiny bit.

Anyhow, good advice from anyone who's "been there" would be cool. My BR is not under threat in any way (although I just had to move 2k from Stars to Interpoker, rather than my bank account) as I have squillions of buyins and I work so I don't have bills to pay from poker. In a way I'm a little concerned that I should be MORE upset by this - I'm just in a kind of "meh, whatever" sort of mood whereby I play, I know I'm making SOME mistakes (perhaps more than usual but it doesn't feel that way) but I certainly haven't been playing awfully or tilting or anything, and I'm reasonably focused. I can pretty much play and win on autopilot now but perhaps I should be being more analytical.

Anyways, I need a pick-me-up, or anything else that might be useful. A couple more days of this and I think it might come home to roost and I'll be packing up my chips and leaving !

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wasn't serious