The past 7 days have been somewhat brutal. I thought I had seen a lot of what variance had to offer, especially the bad stuff, but no. I appreciate this will always be part of the game and have been working hard on my mental game to help me deal with it so that I don’t compound the issue by tilting off stacks as well, or busting keyboards and mice. 

I am writing this post for 2 reasons i) to help myself by getting it off my mind, ii) to help others who may be now or at some point hence suffer from similar.

Variance is many faceted but for this post I am just going to focus on the “OMG really, that just happened” and the “OMFG did that really just happen again” type hands. Specifically in the past 7 days I have flopped or turned top set (99+) 14 times and lost 13 of the hands nearly all of them for massive / all-in pots, every-time I lost to a flush or a str8 on the river and 7 of them were to runner runner, none of them was set over set. i know these stats specifically as after it happened 3 times in one hour in one session I started to keep count.  A bunch of the fairly everyday sucks, bad beats and coolers on top of this has made the past week very tough.  

I am playing full-time now so I hope that i will get through this spell fairly soon (in terms of days rather than games). But, I could imagine that for someone who only plays a few sessions per month, say 50-80 MTTs, if they hit a run like this it could be months before they come out of it and that could be very detrimental. All I will say is that if you are experiencing something similar know that you are not alone, keep playing the best you can you will still get some results despite the bad run and they are all the sweeter.