Hey man,

I am not a pro or whatever, but I play it almost everyday. Made it my second job recently. My swings are usually 1-2 days in length. When it happens with that frequency, I can almost make sure its varience. However, there has been a couple of times where I made bad decisions on certain hands that costed me the whole tournament where I could have made final table. And the problem was I made the mistakes in the big tournaments with big buyins. Playing a lot of volume saved me.

In your case, the length seems just too long to FT. I dont know how much volume have you been putting in, but I have 3 suggestions.

1 – ) Tourneys in pokerstars are mostly packed according to what I heard. Play tournaments with smaller field. Not more than 50 people.

2 – ) Play smaller buy-in tournaments. I know there is an indirect relationship with the first one but 888 has them. Any low traffic poker network will have them.

3 -) If these dont work, considering you have been playing for a long time and a good player, I would give it a break for a while and focus on something totally different. Like change your lifestyle, go to the gym, schedule your time more on poker training, go to quick getaways. Not too long to not want poker any more, but long enough to relax yourself and understand its not all about poker.

I am also assuming some tilt issues may have caused this downswing. That period will hopefully help fix that as well.

Finally, dont be too harsh on yourself.