Blackjack Dealing with the big loss.

This is a duplicate post of my post on BJ21, so I apologize to those that are members on both sites. I am posting both locations as to hear as many thoughts and responses as possible, especially from the fulltime type players.

Yesterday, I suffered my worst single day loss of my BJ career. For me, at my level of play, 5 figure losses in a day are fairly infrequent events. I guess I see 5-7 such losses in a day, per year. Yesterdays loss was the equivalent of 2 of those as I suffered a large loss on my first session of the day exhausting my available funds, replenished my typical single day BR and suffered a second similar large loss, later in the day.

It comes at a time that I was experiencing a fast start to my year, so I guess if there is a good time for such an experience this would be it. I am sure that statement will be disputed, so let me just say, I am not saying there is ever a good time or such a loss 'acceptable'.

So here's the thing and reason for my post. This loss has been weighing on my mind pretty heavy the last 24 hours. I am not talking beating the wife and kids kind of stuff. (I don't have kids). I am just saying I have really been 'dwelling' on yesterdays events much more so than normal, replaying events over and over. I feel like this is a flaw, especially for someone now in his 12th year of playing for a living.

Any thoughts, criticisms? Would love to hear if others go through similar emotions?


Source.

 

Google Five States of Grief. They apply here as well. (Anger, Denial, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance)

 

Always in that order?