What downswing?

I always have prided myself in having great self control and never really allowing myself or my play to become too affected by losing. The reason this is so important is because it is very easy for losing to breed more losing if you let it affect your play. Recently, I had my biggest downswing ever in terms of money lost, but thanks to some serious grinding in the last 15 days I have almost completely erased my downswing in online poker (I didn't keep track of my live losses, but those need some recovering as well, lol). I would show you my lifetime graph so you could see for yourself how drastic my downswing and subsequent upswing were, but I am holding off showing my lifetime graph until I have reached the 1,000,000 hand milestone. I am almost at 600,000 hands right now and hopefully I will make it to the million hand mark sometime around the end of this year or beginning of next.

Anyway, since I have been back in Vegas and really had grind on the mind I have won around $14k in about 15 days and I am not stopping here! I did however notice when I was looking at my graph that following every sharp upswing there is usually a semi-sharp downswing. I don't know if I get cocky and/or complacent or lose that feeling of my back being against the wall, but somehow I always seem to have a small downswing after big upswings. I guess you can't just win all the time or there wouldn't be any upswings...it would just be, well....winning all the time! Makes perfect since, huh? Regardless, I am going to work hard at staying focused and not lose my money making work ethic this time and hopefully I will go on my biggest upswing of all time!

Time to go watch the Lebron show in game 3 against the Magic.

Here is my tentative WSOP schedule....there is no way I will actually play in all of these, but these are the ones I have interest in:

WSOP Schedule
Saturday May 30th $1,000 NLHE
Tuesday June 2nd $1,500 NLHE
Wednesday June 3rd $2,500 PLHE + PLO
Tuesday June 9th $1,500 PLHE
Saturday June 13th $1,500 NLHE
Saturday June 20th $1,500 NLHE
Saturday June 27th $1,500 NLHE
Monday July 6th Day 1D of Main Event $10,000 NLHE