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Old 04-24-2005, 11:17 PM
AndrewtheBold AndrewtheBold is offline
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Default A question about swings

I am looking for a little clarification on something. People frequently talk about swings, particularly that one must be prepared for a 200BB swing from time to time. My question is whether expected value taken into account? For instance, if I think I'm a 1BB/hr favorite and after 100 hours I'm down 50BB, is that a swing of 50 or 150?
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Old 04-24-2005, 11:22 PM
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Default Re: A question about swings

Swings do not take EV into account.
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Old 04-24-2005, 11:29 PM
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It's a swing of 50. But swings don't take that long, they're much quicker.
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Old 04-25-2005, 12:48 AM
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Default Re: A question about swings

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It's a swing of 50. But swings don't take that long, they're much quicker.

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I lost about 30 BB in 30 min today. I rule.
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Old 04-25-2005, 01:37 AM
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It's a swing of 50. But swings don't take that long, they're much quicker.

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I lost about 30 BB in 30 min today. I rule.

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This is the norm for me the past couple days. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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Old 04-25-2005, 09:25 AM
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I lost about 30 BB in 30 min today. I rule.

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Back of the line for you, chump. -175 BBs over the last week.
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Old 04-25-2005, 09:58 AM
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Back of the line Chumpette.

I'm down 330BB ($4400) as of 3/1, 23K hands...

Ok ok I lied, I am up 78BB at 1/2 ($156) during that period. The $156 didn't really restore my BR though...
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Old 04-25-2005, 10:34 AM
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I lost about 30 BB in 30 min today. I rule.

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Back of the line for you, chump. -175 BBs over the last week.

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-271 BB over the last 2000+ hands [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] Somehow I'm still actually + for the month though
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Old 04-25-2005, 11:45 AM
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I'm down 330BB ($4400) as of 3/1, 23K hands...


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I lost $2K in 3 hours last night.
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Old 04-25-2005, 02:01 PM
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I'm down 330BB ($4400) as of 3/1, 23K hands...


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I lost $2K in 3 hours last night.

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I came to within two big bets of moving up to 5/10 for the OIC. Then I dropped about 28, so now I'm 30 away. Do I win?
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