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Message: [QUOTE="primrose, post: 7185307, member: 1036998"] So unfortunately, it's something that tons of people struggle with, which suggests there are no great solutions. But here's a few things that might help. One really obvious thing would just be, well, play something with less variance. Either smaller MTTs, or just cash. Even mixing MTTs with cash would help. For example for me, I've run horrendously in my weekly (twice-weekly up until recently) local live tournament recently, but at the same time I've run pretty good in cash, so it doesn't feel like I'm on a downswing, it just feels like, alright good here bad here, seems fair overall. Of course I could have run badly in both, but it's less likely to happen because cash is lower variance. So either only playing a lower-variance format, or playing a lower-variance format in addition to the high-variance format, would decrease the probability of you having this problem. If you want to stick with MTTs, I think a larger bankroll does help. At least for me that was a pretty important factor. But maybe this is only because for me the bankroll also materially affects my livelihood, so maybe it matters less if you play poker on the side. Also it's not actionable, so not that helpful. As for feeling better right now, it's probably pretty person-specific. But again just going from myself, what makes me feel better about a downswing is if I can find errors in my play. So concretely, say I'm running badly for a week, I lose 1000€, now I feel shitty. Then on Friday when I discuss hands with my coach and find severe errors, that will paradoxically make me feel better because then I feel like, oh okay so it wasn't just the universe being cruel to me, I could have avoided about 600 of the 1000 by playing better. Like just feeling that I can do something about it really helps. And if that also doesn't help, err, well, practice equanimity meditation 🧘‍♀️🔥🔥🔥 Ultimately that's the only true remedy to psychological suffering, of any kind. (I'm actually serious about this, altough it is not exactly a quick fix.) [/QUOTE]

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