[flafishy]

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The amount of fish in 5cd drops off dramatically as you move up. One can still turn a profit, but it becomes harder.

5CD lacks the necessary variance to fool bad players into thinking they are winning players. Murakawa talked about this awhile ago saying that if there was a bad/loose player in the game, he had winning sessions a huge percentage. My experiences have been similar.

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As have mine. Although you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking there's no variance whatsoever. I've learned this the past couple of days, as I've dropped a boatload of cash in the past several hours of 2/4 play to a run of donkeys catching their flushes and straights. I've run up against three donks in the past two days calling raises HU and drawing two to a flush only to hit.

I do believe, as you do, that variance is small in 5CD compared to most other games. But I've learned in the past couple of days that it is NOT non-existent. And there are still a few really big fish out there playing this game.