this month has been insane, even made me put a question out to MSNL, i'll repost it here too anyway
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/56...estion-859228/

the worst thing about poker to me is variance. yes i know its why we can make money at poker but not at chess etc, i understand the theoreticals and i understand it is definitely necessary.

my question is: what % of your hourly would you give up for zero variance

so for example; a pixie gives you a magic hand chart that guarantees half your winrate but absolutely zero variance. you can't exploit it by then playing 56 tables or something, the chart would know, its magic!. you just plod along as usual but have zero variance. if your hourly was $200, its now always $100, instead of +/- $5k/hour.

would you accept.

if not, what % would you accept at.


i'm thinking that both good and bad variance causes me to play alot less hours than i would like. bad leaves me tilted and i usually think it sensible to stop playing. good variance leaves a strong temptation to quit my session and go to the pub or something. i'm sure this rings true for most other regs.

i think there is a theoretical breakeven point just in pure $$EV, but also you might go below that for a more stable stressfree lifestyle.


anyway, heres my lol graph. i'm thankful i'm up for the month, but sad that i didn't just go on holiday after 3 days