Graph Porn Part Three

The Most Exciting Poker Graphs

Since the first Graph Porn entry (Part 2 Here), I’ve received a bunch of messages and graphs from quite a few talented players out there. Some can be shared, some not, but the interesting part of this is that so many successful players can relate to these terrible stretches. Struggling players in particular should pay attention, because if the best can experience runs this bad, it might normalize your own bad run and keep you from feeling like you’re the only one that ever has poor results.

Getting right into it…

This is JackStack99′s graph. Amazing how he runs below EV right from the start all the way to game 20,000. At about game 12,000, you can just feel him thinking “well, this isn’t so bad, at least I’m making pretty good money.” Then the poker gods just crush his hopes and dreams. The lesson? Playing lots of quality volume doesn’t always equal big profit. He still made almost $50,000 before what is likely significant rakeback/FPPs, but if you tell that to him make sure you duck as soon as you finish your sentence.

The above is the type of graph that makes people quit poker. Devastating, disgusting, whatever you want to call it, this graph is just plain wrong. The player wants to remain anonymous here, and quite frankly, I doubt anybody will blame them for it. $500 average buyin, mostly super and hyper turbo HUSNGs on Full Tilt and PokerStars, this graph spans about a 1 year period. Next time you see someone do well after a long breakeven stretch, hope it was this guy.

This man (above) played over 100,000 sit and gos lifetime on PokerStars, including over 80,000 heads up. He paid about $750,000 in rake lifetime. Quite an impressive graph. But he is currently banned from PokerStars for using a VPN. Who is he? None other than ricestud.

But even ricestud is not immune to bad runs of variance. Below is a particularly ugly stretch that he recently sent to me.

We conclude with the beauty below, with love, from Russia. H1nt/whatisicm/16colordeck posted this on 2p2 earlier today. It is his lifetime super-hyper turbo EV graph. Some say the games get tougher, but not for this man. 3% EV ROI on Full Tilt, and now a 3.6% EV ROI on PokerStars, even more impressive given that we now know Full Tilt essentially gave over 100 million dollars in free deposits to players (much of which was abused by players that eventually figured this out). H1nt is an exceptional end game specialist and karaoke superstar.

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