For those that say variance is a myth

I just made my first 10k hands since I installed PokerTracker.

Granted, I am not God's gift to the world of poker, hell, I started playing a month ago.

Still, the graph of my winnings could easily be a design for a new roller coaster... and a damn good one


I'm not sure how it got so bad... maybe due to my skills, maybe due to bad luck, but now it seems to be back on track... so it is either my skills or good luck... I just hope my skills are improving since luck will find a way to even out the score.

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nice spike at the end

yep, but 10k hands really isn't that large of a sample size. Variance is amazing. It keeps the fish thinking their good, and the good thinking they're amazing and thus they have less motivation to work on getting better.

This is most of my stats 25NL and up :

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that's consistency...nice 1!

very
what is the secret, is it listening to snoop dogg?

This is up to NL 10...

All of these graphs are only on Pokerstars.

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Thanks allot people

How did you no that I am listening to snoop dog? Lol
Have all his albums...

Always improving my game is my secret.

^^ i looked at the bottom of ur 25nl + graph, there was a media player there playing snoop, thats how i knew

You are sharp ..... Took me 2 minutes to find that on the picture

Here is one sick hand I lost with after I began loosing up my game playing HAG.

Hands like this will cause me bigger variance in the future I think....

I think this was my first hand at a new table.....lol....


PokerStars Game Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00)
Table Kira 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Hero($100 in chips)
Seat 2: X2 ($130.25 in chips)
Seat 3: X3($200.55 in chips)
Seat 4: X4($103.50 in chips)
Seat 5: X5($74.90 in chips)
Seat 6: X6($117.80 in chips)

X6: posts small blind $0.50
Hero: posts big blind $1

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero[4c As]
X2 : calls $1
X3: folds
X4: folds
X5: folds
X6: raises $4 to $5
Hero: raises $7 to $12
X2 : calls $11
X6: calls $7

*** FLOP *** [Jd 9d 4s]
X6: bets $10
Hero: raises $20 to $30
X2 : calls $30
X6: folds

*** TURN *** [Jd 9d 4s] 8♥
Hero: bets $58 and is all-in
X2 : calls $58

*** RIVER *** [Jd 9d 4s 8h] [Td]

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows [4c As] (a pair of Fours)
X2 : shows [Ad 6d] (a flush, Ace high)
X2 collected $219 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $222 | Rake $3
Board [Jd 9d 4s 8h Td]
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed [4c As] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 2: X2 showed [Ad 6d] and won ($219) with a flush, Ace high