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The Disease That Affects Poker Players
Whilst this is not an unusual virus, it is one that, as an illness, does not get a lot of publicity. I thought it would be useful to pass on my experience of suffering with the disease over the last few months. It is called variance-itis and there are two strains, one is positive and one is negative. I have suffered with both over recent times and it can be quite confusing and frustrating. The positive version leads you in to a false sense of security due to the fact it can end very abruptly and suddenly become negative without any warning symptoms. Research has indicated that this is, in fact, quite a common occurrence amongst the poker playing community.
During the middle part of 2014 I was suffering from negative variance-itis, I had a holiday and afterwards the negative turned to positive, and confusingly I felt much better! The positive continued through January, but suddenly (from 1st February) I had another attack of the negative version and it has continued right up to today, when I suffered 6 consecutive bubbles (DYMs), which makes you very frustrated, particularly when you are on the wrong end of 8 BBs. I did manage to inflict one on to somebody else although, according to his chat box comments, he was not too impressed.
I hope this has been read in the context that it was written. It is not a moan. You just have to laugh it off!!
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