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Originally Posted by wheydacheese
I think his point, which I would echo, is that he finds those games to be less violently variable; that said, the tourist games are much more potentially lucrative if you ride out the swings...just remember when they hit those 2 outer rivers that they had to play horrendously to do so, and that's what you're here for.
I don't agree with you. There's two sources of variance in poker.
Type 1: variance caused by being wrong about who has the best hand.
Type 2: Variance caused by the fall of the cards.
Holdem has the least type 2 variance of any commonly played form - you're usually either way ahead or way behind. And NL tends to have a larger fraction of the money go in on late streets where that's even more true.
Clearly type 1 variance should be reduced by playing against bad opposition - you should be wrong far less IF you are in fact better than them. If you're not better or not by much, than type 1 variance is still a big concern. So if OP is experiencing excessive variance in tourist joints, the issue is probably not the tourists. It's him. The QQ 5-bet hand is a pretty good example of the kind of wrong that costs lots of chips.
Just to be clear, I'm definitely not trying to beat up on OP or make fun or him. I think it's cool he's putting in the work to become a winner. I just interpret his results and the underlying causes a little different.
Last edited by SplawnDarts; 08-06-2014 at 08:35 PM.