What's a "normal" downswing for .50/1?

Hey guys,been on a bit of a rollercoaster the past couple weeks at .50/1.Yesterday I was up 23BB but tonight I ended up losing that and being down 27BB(some suckouts,some outdraws,perhaps one or two bad calls).My table selection was ok for the most part as a majority of the players were loose/passive or loose/semi-aggressive.The hands I made I did get paid off on,but the hands I lost obviously hurt.Luckily my bankroll management combined with bonus chasing helps offset that a bit.

Anyone know what the accepted downswing is for .50/1?I know my game needs more work but I want to see at what point is a downswing a serious issue.Thanks guys.

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I have been trying to play a lot of hands 4 tabling .5/1 NL lately. OMFG, today was the worst day ever. i felt like i was swimming upstream. I was even winning some big pots, but I just felt like I could never stop leaking money. I guess i will stop multitabling like that for a while until i get some confidence back. I don't know what the deal is........... I was handling it, and I think playing fine the entire time. Then, i got kk vs aa twice and two set over sets, in that order, losing me 4 whole more buy-ins. Up until that point, it was bad, i was questioning myself, but not so bad. Those 4 buy-ins went in like an hour.... this is the most horrible game ever. I can handle that I guess, but I mean WTF WTF!!!!! WTF! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

25BB up or down isn't exactly huge. Focus more on your play and less about how much you are winning or losing.

I just realized, you might be talking about limit. 23BB isn't a big swing for limit either. Swings don't even start in limit or no limit until your bb's lost are in the hundreds. even in limit, you can lose 23BB in a couple hands easily.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why won't it stop. Why! WHY! NO! I AM TRAPPED IN MY OWN PERSONAL HELL YOU SCORPION WOMAN THAT IS POKER!

***** Hand History for Game 2686645169 *****
$100 NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, September 10, 06:04:29 EDT 2005
Table Table 36602 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Rocksolid07 ( $262.32 )
Seat 2: Wahoo2006 ( $105.55 )
Seat 3: Solanthos ( $138.95 )
Seat 5: FendiGal ( $135.50 )
Seat 6: oOoViperoOo ( $106.70 )
Seat 10: McCurtain ( $411.33 )
Seat 8: jeremiah32 ( $52.71 )
Seat 4: mtpigeon ( $15 )
Seat 7: INTJay ( $75 )
Wahoo2006 posts small blind [$0.50].
Solanthos posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Wahoo2006 [ Qs Js ]
mtpigeon calls [$1].
FendiGal folds.
Wahoo2006: you fold kings?
oOoViperoOo calls [$1].
INTJay calls [$1].
jeremiah32 folds.
McCurtain calls [$1].
Rocksolid07 calls [$1].
Wahoo2006 calls [$0.50].
backedup1 has joined the table.
Solanthos checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, Ts, 2s ]
Wahoo2006 bets [$4].
Solanthos folds.
mtpigeon folds.
oOoViperoOo folds.
Rocksolid07: what did you have intjay
INTJay raises [$20].
INTJay: i think i was behind
Rocksolid07: i know you were
McCurtain calls [$20].
Rocksolid07 folds.
Wahoo2006 raises [$32].
INTJay is all-In [$54]
McCurtain calls [$54].
Wahoo2006 is all-In [$68.55]
McCurtain calls [$30.55].
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
Wahoo2006 shows [ Qs, Js ] a flush, ace high.
INTJay doesn't show [ 8s, 7s ] a flush, ace high.
McCurtain shows [ Ks, 6s ] a flush, ace high.
McCurtain wins $61.10 from side pot #1 with a flush, ace high with king kicker.
McCurtain wins $226 from the main pot with a flush, ace high with king kicker.
oOoViperoOo has left the table.

oh yea, sorry to hijack your thread, but i am angry. I am trapped in a glass cage of emotion, if you will. My Baxter has been punted, my veronica has hurled a printer at me. I am rubble. You stay classy.

100 BB is common. I lost 25 BB last night playing 1 table. No big deal, it happens.

oh yea, sorry to hijack your thread, but i am angry.

No prob.That is exactly the reason why I have been avoiding NL ring games;the swings are just insane sometimes.

Focus more on your play and less about how much you are winning or losing.

That's been the general plan.Focus on the decisions and the right thing not the results def.

I'm playing exclusively NL single table SNG and doing pretty well at the moment. Hadly any swings because you're stake (but obviously winnings) are limited, but I wouldn't dream of trying ring games until I'm making a constant killing on the tournaments.

Sorry for the noobquestion,but what do u mean with things like 25BB or 100BB?

Originally Posted by Dislexsik

Sorry for the noobquestion,but what do u mean with things like 25BB or 100BB?

Big Bets.

1 Big Bet = 2 Big Blinds

Originally Posted by WhooFleuryScores

oh yea, sorry to hijack your thread, but i am angry.

No prob.That is exactly the reason why I have been avoiding NL ring games;the swings are just insane sometimes.

Focus more on your play and less about how much you are winning or losing.

That's been the general plan.Focus on the decisions and the right thing not the results def.

compared to what? limit games have have bigger swings than nl unless the nl player is completely clueless, and of course SNGs for both types have bigger swings than the ring games.

Originally Posted by bigredhoss

Originally Posted by WhooFleuryScores

oh yea, sorry to hijack your thread, but i am angry.

No prob.That is exactly the reason why I have been avoiding NL ring games;the swings are just insane sometimes.

Focus more on your play and less about how much you are winning or losing.

That's been the general plan.Focus on the decisions and the right thing not the results def.

compared to what? limit games have have bigger swings than nl unless the nl player is completely clueless, and of course SNGs for both types have bigger swings than the ring games.

Im not sure that is true.

For me ring games are higher variance than tourneys.

I think that for a player who is equally adept at both ring and SNGs (say the 90th best player in the world for both), SNGs have a lower variance. Howeer, I cannot prove this myself, and I hope that someone will come by and give some evidence.

Originally Posted by vqchuang

I think that for a player who is equally adept at both ring and SNGs (say the 90th best player in the world for both), SNGs have a lower variance. Howeer, I cannot prove this myself, and I hope that someone will come by and give some evidence.

My gut says that your wrong.

My mind says your right.

Intresting question, or at least something to think about.

hmm, maybe you are right about the SNG thing...The reason I said that is because I've heard about a lot of winning SNG players going on X-teen out of the money streaks, and it seems like not as many winning ring players drop that many buyins (I know it's possible, I just assumed it was less common).

Regular would be 30BB