Re: Can someone help explain variance to a friend of mine?
python,
up until last week (when i decided i'd had enough with school for now) i was only a part-time player. over christmas break, however, i played close to 50k hands. the first three weeks i ran extremely well and won over 55 buyins. after this crazy run i thought i was some sort of poker god. over the next 10 days or so i lost 20 buyins.
before that run i'd always read about variance and how 99% of the players out there don't fully understand how drastic swings can and will be. 50k hands really isn't even all that much so i'm not even sure how much i actually understand variance. but i do know that variance is a bitch.
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