Well, I think 'heaters' are ridiculous. Always have. I've only believed in variance. "Heaters" to me, are like guys saying "Sevens are runnin' hot tonight." Or, getting a seat change button so that when seat 7 leaves [who is runnin' good] they can grab his seat. Or, being told by someone you know who sees you on a table he played at the last 2 days, tells you: "You're at a good table. Try & get seat 9. I won a lot in that seat the last two days & as you can see, the guy in seat 9 is doing good today."
If you can be on a "heater" and get good cards that hit flops, then why can't a specific seat at a table run good? Why can't a specific deck run hot flopping a specific rank a high % of the time? Ever see a deck run hot at flopping monotone over 10 flops when it's only suppose to happen 5% of the time?
I won't go into why I was tracking this, however I once went 48 times in a row without flopping a set of 6s. Then when I did, my V caught a 4th card to work with 1 of his for a str8. It wasn't until the 59th time of being dealt 66 that I won a really nice pot.
After about 3-5 weeks of running so so with my 66, I went on a
heater and flopped several sets making a nice amount of money. Was it really a
heater, or just variance? I think a more accurate term would be "High +Ev Variance."
"All of my good streaks & all of my bad streaks of every length & depth have had one thing in common. They did not exist in your mind. They only existed in my mind. And this is true for everyone's winning & losing streaks. None of them actually exist. They are all mental fabrication, like past & future. Everything that ever happens happens in the present tense. But how can you have a "streak" in the present tense? You can't. And therefore, if you are in the present tense, which, in fact, at this time you are, then at this moment there is no streak in your life. There is no inherent existence to streaks. The streak is there when you think about it, and when you stop thinking about, it goes away. It blossoms and withers, all in your mind. And when your mind invents a streak, you believe it exists, because you believe what your mind tells you. But the truth is there is only the hand you are playing." - Tommy Angelo