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Re:What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money by bashwizard on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:12AM (#19509970)
While the swings in tournaments are brutal, they're nothing vs having a break even or small losing streak for 200k hands in cash games. I've had a few of those during my years of playing cash games professionally and when they happen you start to questioning why you're even playing, why even try to win, what are you doing with your life etc.

Variance is a bitch.

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Re:What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money by soup10 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:30AM (#19510069)
Even if you are winning and can tolerate the grind, as soon as you go up in stakes you lose most or all of your edge and variance goes way up. The ugly truth about poker is its only fun if there are fish feeding chips to the good players. As soon as it gets truly competitive you might as head to the roulette tables because at-least there you have consistent odds and don't have to grind out hands for hours to get your gambling kicks.
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