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Chicago_Kid
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05-02-2005, 03:40 AM
Post subject: Long sessions not good for the BR?
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Anyone else have issues with long sessions hurting the BR? I consistently have great sessions going up 20-40 BB, and if I take it too long, I eventually give much of it back.
Take tonight, I'm cruising up 35BB in 1.5 hrs. As I continue to play, the bad beats come and my BR gets grinded down. By 3 hrs, I'm B/E and cannot seem to get it back. I can't seem to see any changes in my play over the session duration, but it's gotta be something I'm doing.
Whatever it is, apparently I tend to play best for about 2 hours at a time, and then the games seem to go sour me. Mini-tilt, pehaps? Just variance? Maybe patience issues? Driving me crazy after a seemingly good session goes to shit.
Just wondering if anyone else experiences this.
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Variance happens. I swing up and down all the time durring long sessions. Quite often I'll go $200 in the hole over 2 hours then make all that back plus $50 in like 15 min.
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When Quad tabling if you lose or win one pot on each table its easy to go on 20 BB swings. Maybe you take you lose all that you've gain because the people at the table have developed a read on you of some sorts. Try changing tables after a huge suckout victory or after you get caught blind stealing.
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4+ Tabling doesn't make you swing any more or less than one tabling, unless you consider that you may play at a higher BB/100 running fewer tables, in that case you would swing less because of the higher win-rate. However, it does make you swing a lot faster.
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I would guess it's almost definately just random variance unless you are playing when you are tired and can't concentrate for more than 2 hours or something. In general the length of your session should have no impact on how well you do unless you specifically start playing worse for whatever reason as you go on. I personally have never had any problems with this yet, though I've also never played any extremely long sessions either...I think about 3.5 hours is my longest ever at a ring game(played for about 5 hours the one time I won a multi table).
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Chicago_Kid
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Originally Posted by Nehmer
I would guess it's almost definately just random variance unless you are playing when you are tired and can't concentrate for more than 2 hours or something. In general the length of your session should have no impact on how well you do unless you specifically start playing worse for whatever reason as you go on. I personally have never had any problems with this yet, though I've also never played any extremely long sessions either...I think about 3.5 hours is my longest ever at a ring game(played for about 5 hours the one time I won a multi table).
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Yeah, I've considered the fatigue factor and mini-tilt that comes with long sessions and frustration due to strings of bad beats. Guess all I can say is I'll watch for this next time I get up there in duration.
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i admire you players that can handle 3 or more tables... my max is 2, anymore and my reads goto hell and im just playing tight sklansky poker.
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