Sorry for the lack of updates in the last week but I have been dealing with the most difficult thing to deal with in online poker… variance. It’s something that everyone that plays for a living must deal with from time to time but no matter how many times you experience it, or how prepared you think you are for it, it always seems to catch you by suprise.
After updating my blog with the results from Friday, I was very excited to put in a solid weekend session where I could build on Friday’s success. That said, the poker world imploaded from Saturday onwards. I loaded up Full Tilt, jumped onto the tables and got hit immdeiately by a two outer. For some reason I just couldn’t rebound from it and I managed to give away three buy ins. I’d like to think that over the years, I’ve been able to control the tilt issues that haunt a lot of people but this time there was no controlling the tilt. I was on 100% monkey tilt, spewing off buy ins left, right and centre. If I flopped bottom two pair, the villian has top two, if I make 7’s full, villian has K’s full, if I turn a flush, he rivers a bigger flush. It was brutal and it lasted for a full 25,000 hands over the course of seven days. I went back and did session reviews, talked hours of poker, and trolled 2+2 looking to plug leaks. Turned out there wasn’t really many leaks and it was just the variance monster biting me in the ass. Monday, however, seems to be the day it ended, I caught a two outer on somebody and it seems that the poker world from there has returned to normal. I will post my graph so that you can see what the variance roller coaster looks like.
Looking forward, I am going to play in the $3 million guaranteed River tournament at Winstar casino in Oklahoma on Thursday. The buy in is $2,100 and although the buy in is large and not something that I would normally pony up for it, I expect there to be an overlay of about $500k. When overlays happen in tournaments it is important to take advantage of them, not to mention that I expect the field to be pretty weak overall. They ran sats for this for weeks so i’m thinking that plenty of live ones will be in the field. First prize will be about $600k and if I manage to luckbox my way deep into the tournament, I will certainly let you guys know in my blog asap.
Time to bounce now but as always, good luck at the tables….
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Good luck mate. I read in Clarkatroids blog and graphs that he had a bad run of 300,000 hands. Variance is awful!