Not only is it not transferrable through different games, it is not transferrable through the same game.

Basically say you have been running bad in MTT's up to a certain point, you are no more or less likely to run bad or good in the next MTT you play.

What they said...Each hand is a unique event with no influence from prior or future events(statistically). However, I think playing on tilt definately can increase your variance which is hella transferrable in unison or w/e....

edit: i used to live in beaverton....

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>the truth about variance
by Realbigfish4 on 6/6/2007 18:36 </TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>I’ve come to a conclusion about variance. It’s a complete and utter myth when it comes to online poker. Over the last few weeks I did an experiment, I bought into different levels of cash games for different portions of my bank roll and tracked my success. I started at .25/.50 buying in for 50 (aprox. 1/100 of my br) and played 3 hour sessions twice a day for 4 days and I only made 34.45. I then stepped it up .50/1 buying in for 100 (1/50 of my br) and again played 3 hour sessions twice a day for 4 days and I made 256.25. <SPAN> </SPAN>Then I moved to 1/2 mirroring the pervious two levels and made 278.90.

I did this several more times till I was at 25/50 with my whole br at the table, as I would ship my winnings to DaVol2k7 so I would only have 5k when I went up levels. I would rather not say how much I made but variance is a complete and utter myth. I then spent a couple hours trying to figure why my success was greater with the more of my br I put at risk. The conclusion I came to most likely will be argued by the “poker knowledgeable” crowd but they will all be wrong.

Unlike live poker where the house has no control on the cards you get online poker sites can control them. I’ve decided that the reason poker sites “control the play” by hand feeding winning hands is b/c they are owned by amazing business men. The people who profit from these sites understand that someone that buys in for a good portion or all of their bankroll want the site to make money. They realize the “maximum value” player will not only play better poker b/c the cant afford to lose but while the player is trying to get the maximum value they are looking for they will make large pots given the house more rake.

If the sites just let maximum value players lose their whole roll in a session the player will most likely take a break from poker and possibly even go to another site when they get back online. Therefore it is not profitable for poker sites to allow players to lose their whole br. This makes it much more profitable for not only the site but also the player. VARIANCE IS A MYTH!!
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variance is a myth in case you are wondering :) i think you'll find your answers in that thread

I wasnt asking about each games variance. I know which games have which variance levels. (BTW your ordering is way off.) I was trying to figure out why people continue to bitch and whine about running bad lets say in tournaments when they could switch games and take a break from the one they're running bad in?

Variance is all about trends. How long or short those trends take is completely random. But what im saying is that different games so seem to adhere to these trends. Like when im running good in tourneys Im not necessarily running well in cash, or vice versa.

Oh and it goes full ring, sng, 6 max, MTT, HU as far as the size of typical variance.

wait so cash games have MORE variance than mtts? variance is standard deviation squared...a measure of how far away from the mean each data point is, so how would mtts be closer to the mean on average then cash games when cash game results are pretty consistent while in mtts you can have huge scores and very long dry spells?

I think you read my order backwards. The only thing with more variance then MTTs is HU sngs and HU cash.

i feel bad for you

Hey Epiphany, I think you need to see what variance actually is.
If you play a new hand of poker, it doesn't know if you lost or won the previous hand, or 100 hands. It doesn't matter on what kind of variance you are on that point. The chance of winning that hand are exactly the same if you lost the previous 100 hands or won them. So, variance doesn't actually exist, it is not a 'thing' that influences whether or not you will win the next hand. It is just a way to describe how lucky or unlucky you are being at that particular point in time.

This whole story is only true if bad variance doesn't make you tilt or anything like that.