UnknownJebrone
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I agree with this. You can't eliminate it, but you might be able to reduce it a little with a lot of volume
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andrezito38
Rock Star
Silver Level
these are the guys who have increased your stack and will make you go further, watch what they are doing and adapt your game, when you realize you will have all of his chips, and the game will return to normal pace. and if it's not you, someone else will have his chips, so work to be you.
gl friend
gl friend
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dlam
Visionary
Silver Level
Play less hands
I once played in six hour tournament out of 50 players where I placed 3rd playing just six hands to showdown The rest of the time I was stealing blinds. Let the agressive players battle and KO each other out. Of courses I was short stacked all the way through but managed making money ��
I once played in six hour tournament out of 50 players where I placed 3rd playing just six hands to showdown The rest of the time I was stealing blinds. Let the agressive players battle and KO each other out. Of courses I was short stacked all the way through but managed making money ��
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Hemified
Visionary
Bronze Level
Good luck dont mean crap..lol. I mean if you earn it. Luck is not given, it is earned. That said i think it has more to do with experience and practice. The more you practice somthing the better you get at it.
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chalghaf
Rock Star
Silver Level
definitely by learning Poker , studying and keep being updated on all the new stuff that is coming out and most importantly Playing A LOT of poker hands cuz when u follow the "guidelines" and play huges amounts you reduce the luck factor . but for someone that isnt seeking a professional carrer in poker its really hard to be that committed to learning poker . and still with with all that being said , luck always gonna be there haha
funnyhook3
Rock Star
Bronze Level
In a game with high dispersion, luck is the only thing that can give you victory. No amount of skill will help here. Especially in online poker
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Maggio_A
Rock Star
Silver Level
hahaha
seems like, honestly dont know how to reduce luck element, you should be happy when its on your side and run away when it is not
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suitedsadness
Rock Star
Silver Level
You let them try to get unlucky. Their issue is that they will always lose over a large sample, and you will always win. You just need to ignore short term results and look to the long term. (assuming you are profitable)
nuttea
Visionary
Bronze Level
Variance is the difference between how much money you expect to win in the long run on average and the results you see in the short run. So, for example, if, according to your win rate, you expect to win an average of $ 500 per month, but end up losing $ 1000 instead, then this failure of yours is due to variance.Let's say you are playing heads-up against a crazy maniac who shoves every hand. Moreover, by pure chance or by magic, you are dealt pocket aces 5 times in a row. Obviously, you are pushing your pocket aces all 5 times preflop.Against any random hand, AA has an 85% chance of winning. Therefore, we expect to win roughly 4 of 5 of these preflop all-in, although ideally we would like to win every time. However, you ended up losing all 5 preflop all-ins against your opponent's five random hands. It seems unlikely, but still it happened. On average, you expected to win 4 out of 5 of these preflop all-ins, but due to variance, you never won. As you can see, the variance is the difference between the expected long-term results and the actual results in the short-term, in this case the “price” of the variance was not much, not a little, but as much as 4 buy-ins.
johnnylawford
Visionary
Bronze Level
I think what you're asking is how do you control variance during MTTs? The key to tournament play is to balance your risk based on stack size. The smaller a stack, the wider you have to go all-in, so reducing variance means balancing what you are willing to risk everything with versus your risk of running out of chips. The bigger risk is playing so tight your opponents can just bluff you off of marginal hands, which is why trying to reduce variance isn't the best goal, versus recognizing and accepting positive expected value spots even if it means you might lose sometimes.
