What's everybody's worst variance stories? I have been playing for 1 year now. Decent game. Double deck, H17 DAS with about 55% penetration. I play at the $25 min table because it is always empty so i am always getting a heads up game with about 160-190 hands per hour. I have been using the knock out strategy with full indeces generated using CV data. My spread is a 10 unit bet spread at a 25$ min table. My hourly is $100 per hour. In 10 months after 300 hours i was up 28k which is slightly less than my hourly. But all the sudden since November started I am getting killed. The month of November I lost 3k. And so far this month i have only played 22 hours and I am losing 15k!!! In only 22 hours!!! That is a 60 max bet downswing in only 22 hours. If you include the 3k downswing from last month then it becomes a 72 max bet downswing. Now whos dumb idea was it to reccomend a 100 max bet bankroll? Trust me it is not nearly enough. You need at least 300 max bets to be safe.