Quote Originally Posted by Chicago_Kid
Yeah, I don't get this "10 buy-in swing" comment. I look at variance in terms of an absolute (+ or -) spread of profit over a set amount of hands. For example, my SD/100 hands is currently 42 big bets (that's over 24k hands). I focus on win rate, more than variance. And this is over a pretty bad stretch, for what it's worth.
So you've been having bad luck and ran at 42 ptBB/100 over 24k hands? What's next? WSOP?

Also, you never care about variance, typically, when you are winning. It only comes into play when you are losing.