I have been experiencing high swings in variance the past 2 weeks, $ 200 to $300 swings.
I started playing NL ring mostly short handed about 2 weeks ago. I started at 25 & 50NL and did OK, up & down, kind of holding my own.

On a dare I tried 100NL and had a great weekend netting $350. I cashed out $300 ( to appease my wife) and left $150 to play with. After taking a week off I returned and played 25NL to build the BR back up and proceeded to loose most of it. I redeposited the $300 ( don’t tell the wife ) and proceeded to loose most of that till I was down to $100.

Jumped back into 100NL over the weekend and pushed BR up to $450.

Sunday night; lost $250. 100NL

Monday night; lost $150. 50NL

Last night; back up to $400 playing 50NL.

Am I doing something wrong? Just getting lucky when I win? I can only remember 2 really bad beats through out this that cost me about 75 to 100 each; the rest was just getting ground down.