How to know if it's tilt or variance

[Barrin6]

Well I just had my first bad swing in 6 max. So I decided to check out how to see if it was me or variance. Go to Poker Patterns and select the premium starting hands. If you see a slump in your graph then it's variance. If it looks normal then it's tilt.

[goofball]

not a bad idea. which actual hands do you select

[tinhat]

How did you decide this? Just because prems go down doesn't mean they're being played correctly but losing. I mean, if I'm missing something I sure would like to know what basis there is for thinking this. Or if you had the experience to *know* you weren't misplaying them you wouldn't need to see the graph, right?

Mike