Downswing
A stretch of results below your previous high, measured in length and in buy-ins lost.
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- What it means
- A downswing starts at a high point of the running total and lasts until that high is beaten. Its depth is the biggest fall from the high along the way.
- How it is calculated
- For every simulated career the simulator records the longest stretch spent below a previous high, in tournaments, and the deepest fall, in buy-ins.
- Worked example
- You are up 120 buy-ins after 400 tournaments, fall to up 20 by tournament 700 and pass 120 again at tournament 900. That is a 500-tournament downswing, 100 buy-ins deep.
- Why it matters
- Knowing that a winning player routinely goes hundreds of tournaments without a new high stops you from blaming your game, or chasing losses, when it happens.
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Lessons that teach it: Same decisions, different results, A bankroll rule made before the downswing · lessons other than the free one need an invite
See also: Variance, Bankroll, Risk of ruin