Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

4,000 hands : thats 2 nights for me. I once ran bad 6 nights in a row for about 500BB. Some of that was tilt for sure, but I think I counted 11/13 AA cracked in that stretch, it was downright awful beats.

Some of the longer, better players around here have suffered downswings in excess of 10K hands(maybe even 15K+). You can't even look at your stats or winrate or anything else with any worthwhile meaning until probably 25K+ and then only with a grain of salt. I think a good starting point for stats is 100K+. A few stats are OK to look at with this small a sample, things like VP$P & PFR%, but most of the rest is worthless.

I hope this helps answer your original question.

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

holy [censored]. maybe i don't suck at 5/10. maybe i just suck at taking the swings. (or both).

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

Go figure, I decided to give Gametime another shot and loaded it on my PC. HEY THE NEW VERSION WORKS [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] . So I went to an EZ 2/4 table to see how it works, set preferences, set my PT timer, work with it, yada yada.....

1st 19 hands I get 5 premiums, lost with all of them heads up to suckouts on the turn or river, -$75 in 5 mins. Go figure. Im telling you when its not your night to play it just aint your night to play.

But for $75 I got gametime to work [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

30bb seems awfully small personally. However if you find yourself tilting, then by all means!

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

Sure, a stop loss of $300 is fine. . .if you mean at any one specific table. Usually by then the other players are all taking shots at you and it's time to move. Otherwise, there are some nights you're going to play for 20 minutes and then quit a $300 loser. Learning not to tilt and to absorb the suckouts and swings is probably the most important part of SH, IMO. There are so many bad players that you can grind out winnings even if you are mediocre.

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

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I set my loss limit at 30BB or $300.



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This will never work at SH play.

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

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-$75 in 5 mins


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If this is going to annoy you then you really shouldn't play the $5/10 6-max.

Or the $3/6.

Guy.

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

If -7.5BB in 1 hand or even 1 hour bothers you, you shouldn't be playing poker of any kind.

Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

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A 30BB stop loss in SH limit has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

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Re: 5/10 SH variance.
 

http://www.moreles.com/graph811.gif

Variance is fun.