Variance

[Nade]

A picture paints a thousand words (or whatever) This is just from NL100 this month. How do i know it's variance? I haven't changed my game throughout. I PMd Gaf at the bottom of the dip saying it's going really bad etc. but i was going to stick to my game as i know i'm playing really well. So it just shows what a really bad run or a really good run of cards can do. I think this graph should help all the people doing the challenge and anyone else to see that yes poker can be tough but if you stick to your guns and keep a clear and strong mental mindset then things can very quickly turn around.

[GaF]

Re: Variance Nice one Nade :ok Not talking about you specifically (in fact I'm thinking of my experiences) - but I'm not sure I agree you can be sure nothing in your game has changed - I think that the most incredibly small, and unnoticable, changes can make a huge difference - they creep into your game without you realising or noticing and you get them out of your game through evolutionary movements, and hey presto - it's gone, without you ever realising it was there :loon The big one I notice is when I play a lot of tournaments, I really struggle in cash and do better in tourneys .... then when my focus switches to cash, at first I struggle, but seem to turn it around, but inversely proportionate to that, my tourney game slides - I believe that I make adjustments (subconscious adjustments) to my game that improves my cash play, at the expense of tourney play. If I focus on tourneys, then I make the same journey, but in reverse, to when I switch to cash. I dont know what adjustments I make between tourneys and cash (I know what adjustments I make between short stack and deep stack, but this is more than that) - I just know that I need time to adjust from one to the other :unsure