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McSchnitzel's picture
variance when playing on 2 different clients.

so i've been playing $115 PLO heads up SNG's on Pokerstars for the past 5 months with great results, and i started playing on FT also one month ago.Since omaha has huge variance, i started having the following pattern: when i ran good on stars, i was having a huge downswing on FT, and also the other way around.I would like to know wether playing on different sites increases your variance, or how this pattern could be explained. Please only reactions from $100 + players.

RyPac13's picture
As long as the structures are

As long as the structures are the same and opponent skills similar, you shouldn't have any additional or less variance.If some of those variables are not similar between each site, then your variance may increase or decrease on one site compared to the other.  I still would not expect a major difference between Stars and FTP at the same levels, not enough to win well on one and lose on the other very often.  But if it's a high variance game, it wouldn't surprise me if you had success on one and not the other at times.  Overall, your expectation should be similar, the only difference being the opponent skill and structure (like if you played FTP turbos which are shorter stacked, and faster structure then Stars turbos, you'd likely have a lower edge per game in FTP turbos and more downswings, but you'd also be able to play more games per hour).

hotrock's picture
are you having a laugh?

haha wtf....