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Originally Posted by LoboIX
While I'm not complaining about winning, I don't like the fact that I'm either winning or losing a session based on these monster all in pots (where we most likely get it in pre-flop or after the flop) vs. being able to build my stack over the 5 hour session.
It's actually very standard for sessions (and indeed monthly graphs) to be punctuated by "spikes". Most hands have very low EV, and most pots are quite small (your single most common action should be folding). Few hands even reach the river, let alone feature stack offs. Depending on game dynamics, you might only get all in and called once every 150-250 hands. (More often if you're playing short-handed, short-stacked, or in a tournament, less often when deep or playing full ring).
While playing the small pots keeps your winrate ticking over (and in the long run makes the difference between you being a winning or losing player) it's a curious truism that the biggest pots tend to be coolers. In fact, there's a fairly strong correlation between how often you get aces and your overall winrate. Indeed, well over half of your profit comes from that single hand, and many players would be losers if they never got aces. If your stack
consistently increases during a session (or a tournament), it's usually due to card distribution; in other words it's just rungood.