A great fire roasts a few people while tens of millions of people near by escape such a fate.īut that is not a surprise, or at least it shouldn't be. Someone else is struck by a rare cancer at age 10. Every day we see proof of this - someone wins the lottery. If the question is 'are there some people who have enjoyed more positive variance and/or other people who have been afflicted with negative variance based on prior results?' Then the answer is going to be yes. All I can control is my own actions, I can't control the luck (good or bad) so I try not to let it tilt me like it used to. I used to bemoan my bad luck a LOT back in the day (two days in a row playing Omaha hi/lo limit cash games online, I raise both days with AAxx suited and get called by fish with 77xx or 99xx and both days on the turn I have the nut full house plus low redraws, and both times I'm up against quads and miss my low and get scooped).īut at the end of the day I think it all evens out. So while in the context of those hands I don't think I played them poorly (one could say I was unlucky in those spots to run into dominating hands), I managed to defy the odds and come out the victor each time.

I was deep in another live tourney and made my stand with only to run into and I was like 'well, I guess I need to hit the flush' and sure enough there were two hearts on the flop, the other guy hit the on the turn to set up and I rivered a heart to double through him and cash in that one. Then on the money bubble of the tourney facing an aggressive button raiser I shoved from the SB and he woke up with and I flopped the to double up and stay alive and made the money. There was a live tournament where I got it in with against for my tourney life pre and won with a rivered flush, then against the same guy got it in with vs his and rivered the to send him packing.

But what helps keep me grounded is remembering the times I was behind and won.

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