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Originally Posted by NewClintEastwood
It sounds like a great game and I wouldn't be too concerned over the losses. I am a massively winning player over the last 2k hours but have had many 300bb downswings. If you play aggressive you play correct, and if you are playing aggressive highish variance will happen.
What I would focus on is tight pre and postflop hand selection. In a game that plays big there is no need to play marginal hands or hands that barely hit the board. There is so much added value from how big it plays that even a loose player like myself would tighten up a lot. In games like this PPs seem extra valuable so I'd play more regardless of position hoping to flop sets.
I also believe this is an amazing game but when the bad beats come they hurt. Last Sunday I sat back and grinded my stack up to aprox 950$ and lost more than half in one hand with a bad play and a bad read on the turn. It is very easy in this game to be way ahead on the flop and ask yourself wth happened on the turn since some of the players will think nothing of calling an all for 500 plus $ with a gut shot that is almost impossible for my mind to put them.
It's not so much the losses I am concerned about since my bank roll can more than cover the variances but the trend is small wins and huge losses. I don't have a large enough sample size to actively judge how this will play out over time but wanted to get other opinions on if this was normal or okay I guess. There is so much free money and I don't feel as if I am approaching it all correctly.