A quick rant here.
I'm a winning player on DoNs (6-handed) on Merge network, and in the last 350 games I had like the silliest downswing I have ever seen.
Here's the graph before July the 1st:
and here's the one after:


You know the story. Like 50% of my KK's got beaten by Ax, or lower pair, or hell even J-crap (suited!) on several occasions.
I got Jacks -> Someone got kings.
I got AQ -> Someone have AK.
I got Aces -> Someone calls with 6Ts and wins.
Over and over again. (Remember: This is 6-handed, very important)
It's like half of my JJ+ AQ+ gets dominated or matched.
Flips? First, I was never flipping this much as on these past few days.
I got JJ in SB - he got AK in BB. I get AQ on button - he have a pair.
OK so, how about winning those flips? Isn't more then 25% from like hundreds and hundreds of those (that's literally - I'm not making stuff up).
I must admit, I had my share of luck at start, was even 14% ROI till game 2000. So I had some normal downswings which brought me to 9% ROI (which I feel is realistic).
And YES I did go up to 5's, but I already played around thousand of 3's and some 5's before that. Besides, 5's are just a bit harder then 3's - they are not "from 9% to minus 15% ROI" harder.
Ah yeah, as a cherry on the dung cake I received, I had my connection cut off today as well while 10-tabling.
Actually I don't feel as crappy anymore.
Rant over.
PS: I ran this situation in ROI simulator and this can happen in like 1 in 1000 for SnG's. I suppose it's way less for DoN's.
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