For me, the swings are irrelevant. I recall playing several hours in a marginal game and winning $5K. Took a one hour dinner break and decided to return and play another session. In one hour lost everything back to the house. Oh well. Just another flat day to be recorded in the record books.DSchles said:
High volatility.xengrifter said:
Coming home with a win shouldn't mean anything if you are playing correctly. Do you want a happy spouse, or to lose your bankroll?psyduck said:
Bankroll is more important. You can't explain to the spouse what variance means?Hell'nBack said:
I tried...your humor just isn't that funny.psyduck said:
I recall the one time I did try, I got kicked in the nuts!Counting_Is_Fun said:
If traveling players don't play enough hours and never reach the long run as you say, then I would suggest a different hobby. It probably won't end well for them.psyduck said:
Well, as usual, no thread stays on topic for very long. You ask a very specific question, and all you get is incessant ramblings that have nothing to do with the original question. It's an incredible staple of these internet forums: people have the attention span of an earthworm. Often makes me wonder how any of them ever managed to graduate from high school or college, with no ability to focus. But, I digress.gronbog said:
How disappointing this answer is Don. I would respectfully ask you to step back and read some of your recent posts. For all the good that you have done for so many players, myself included, you have become quite the condesending, cranky almost seemingly angry old guy of late.DSchles said:Well, as usual, no thread stays on topic for very long. You ask a very specific question, and all you get is incessant ramblings that have nothing to do with the original question. It's an incredible staple of these internet forums: people have the attention span of an earthworm. Often makes me wonder how any of them ever managed to graduate from high school or college, with no ability to focus. But, I digress.
My personal answer is that I always preferred to be winning for the whole trip and then, if it had to be that I was destined to break even at the end, lose it back on the last day(s). And the reason is, if I was going to be away for, say 7-10 days, I much preferred going to sleep each night and waking up each morning with the nice feeling of being comfortably ahead, instead of the very opposite, somewhat lousy feeling, of being in the hole for the entire trip.
And anyone who tells you that it shouldn't matter, and that we're just putting in time and earning e.v., and that we play with no emotion and like robots, is, of course, entirely full of shit.
Happy New Year, my friend.
Don
DSchles said:Well, as usual, no thread stays on topic for very long. You ask a very specific question, and all you get is incessant ramblings that have nothing to do with the original question. It's an incredible staple of these internet forums: people have the attention span of an earthworm. Often makes me wonder how any of them ever managed to graduate from high school or college, with no ability to focus. But, I digress.
My personal answer is that I always preferred to be winning for the whole trip and then, if it had to be that I was destined to break even at the end, lose it back on the last day(s). And the reason is, if I was going to be away for, say 7-10 days, I much preferred going to sleep each night and waking up each morning with the nice feeling of being comfortably ahead, instead of the very opposite, somewhat lousy feeling, of being in the hole for the entire trip.
And anyone who tells you that it shouldn't matter, and that we're just putting in time and earning e.v., and that we play with no emotion and like robots, is, of course, entirely full of shit.
Happy New Year, my friend.
Don
I moved here so I could minimize travel, but have not eliminated it. This year i had 6 trips consisting of 3+ nights. And i can assure you that I slept no differently on winning or losing days. 