I think Xaston has said a straightforward ABC player wont be a solid winner in 2/4NL. Didnt you Xaston?

Can anyone confirm the contrary?

It is my impression from observing the games at a few sites that they can. Just a impression though.

Depends on your defintions of "straightforward ABC player" and "solid winner".

I know for sure these bad swings can last this long. I work in a casino and see people get badbeated for months and I have my one monthly swings every other 3 months or so
These swings make you feel bad. Bad about your play, bad about your life bad about just everything. Which is ridiculous when you turn on the news and see the real problems in the world, but **** that for now.

What I would do right now is the following ( parental advice ).
Get a job. What....are you insane tommyhawk!!!!.
Get a real simple job via some employment office. A simple job is working in a factory or something where you don't have to think.
This way you will have the rest in your head that your bills will be payed for and can still play poker in the evenings and work the bankroll up again. The bankroll will be going up again because you are one hell of a player and it's only a matter of time. But you need to buy yourself the time right now.
You can quit the job anytime you want and are in a much better mood knowing this and the pressure of having to win for food is off.

I had some simple jobs ( jobs that are beneath my intelligence ) and I liked the part that it was not straining me mentally and also gained some muscles )
I think for now doing this will have several more benefits but you will find that out when you are doing it or maybe way after.

It may be a big step for you right now but I think you would grow as a player and as a person.

Just think about it.

Dood im me on aim tonight and lets talk.

Kenny,

I think that the problems you have with your game are more of psychologichal nature than anything else.
You was not winning for a long time and now you don't play in the right mood. (Yes, I attribute a gratest part of your swing to sub-optimal play. When I analyzed my losing stretches it was 1/3 of bad beats and 2/3 of bad play.)
What I did at that time was to throw off this negative past behind and start 'anew', just some simple psycology things:
1. Change a site and start there with a new deposit looking at it as a 'new' pseudo-bankroll. Sounds simple, but it helped me a lot in the past.
2. Start with small stackes there, be it 100 or even 50NL, doesn't matter, you won't play there for a long time, you'll just start to win and will move up as soon as you are back on track. And it will not take long to win at 100NL no matter the beats, I guess you should be beating this game for 10PTBB+ with your A game, so no (statistically sound!) amount of bad beats would be able to stop you from winning.
3. Make sure to put out of your hand the question with 2k bills that you have to pay at least for 2 month. Get a job, or put aside some money if you have them, (I even pretty sure that you can find some backers if needed), just say for yourself: 'Ok, I don't need to worry about it for two month'. You'll be in a relaxed mood with less presure.

These are most imortant things IMO. (Changing site could be unneccesary, that depends on your feelings.)

As for your game, I think you can ask some of the posters to sweat you live talking on Skype for example. (Even I could do it, not implying in anyway to be a great player. Just don't ask Xaston.) And if you hear something like: WTF you are doing, well, think WTF you are doing:). And post some winning hands in NL section, every time I see your post I know the right answer: fold, it gets difficult to give a good advice when you don't mix up your posts properly .

Best regards
Alexey

Wish you could multitable man...I make 4k/month on the 100s.