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Playing Good When You’re Running Bad

Seth Godin had a great post on his blog today. Even though he’s talking about marketing and customer service, his advice applies really well to poker. Let’s say you have a bike race coming up and you obviously want to have the best time you possibly can. The thing…


Heads Up Poker Bankroll Management

Heads up poker has a quite a bit more variance than 6max or fullring. In other words, when you run hot, you’re really making bank, but you also get brutal downswings. Take a look at my lifetime graph.


Heaters and Downswings: Variance in Heads Up Poker

There was an great post on variance on 2+2 about a week ago that included a link to an Excel spreadsheet. As you probably know, the upswings and downstreaks are a lot more extreme in heads up than 6-max and fullring. In fact, heads up is…