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Originally Posted by khrage
on a more serious notes;
i think the secret is to put in volume and sort of grind your way past the variance (I'm speaking in regards to 6max LHE)
I'm starting to think my 30min - 1hr long sessions are only good for getting me on tilt and making me bang my head against the keyboard.
A few things:
1) we all have leaks.
2) we all have losing streaks.
3) some of us will never understand what it's like to go on a 1k hand heater, never mind understanding what it's like to run at 2+BB/100 for over 70k hands. To experience these upswings, you gotta put in serious volume. That can take months or even years. Only the anomalous select few will run super hot at the very beginning of his or her career. The rest of us must put in lots of hours to experience such massive upswings.
4) you're probably a much better player than you were just a few months ago. In a year, you'll probably be a much better player than you are now. The thing is that as you improve, you'll see diminishing returns on your improvement. There is a winrate ceiling and the more you improve, the more you approach this ceiling and the less your winrate will be affected by improving your game.
5) I has a kitty named Buddy. He's really big and is gray with a white chest and white paws. He's wicked silly and loves to play even though he's almost 10 years old. I got him fourth handed from the girlfriend of a brother of my ex girlfriend. The father of Buddy's household hated cats and swore that he was gonna kill the entire litter of precious kitties. With much haste, my ex's brother and girlfriend saved Buddy and brought him home, naming him "Merlin" ewww what a horrible name for a cat. My ex took in Merlin, but we all agreed that the name didn't fit. We debated the point. "how about Rocky?" I said cus he's from the streets of Brockton Massachusetts a la the great Rocky Marciano. "Nah" they all said. Well the kitty was laying on our friend Jeff's lap at the moment that I said "How about Buddy?" cus he was very friendly even as a kitten. Well his head perked up and he looked right at me and said "Meooowww!" and he got up, came right over to me, and laid down in my lap. He was forever known as Buddy from that point on.