Quote Originally Posted by Airles™
LHE has swings, it's just not as noticeable as NL and it doesn't happen in big chunks. That's the nature of the game. NL is a cold-hearted bitch. It's not uncommon for LHE players to have 100-200BB downswings. And when it does, it's much harder to get back because you can't just go "all-in" when you hit a big hand. So it's kinda pick your poison.
LHE can have huge swings when you have a couple of maniacs at your table. 2 loose aggressive players can combine to make almost every pot 4 to go (i.e., quadruple your cost of seeing a flop) and every flop 4 to continue (again, quadrupling your cost of getting to the turn). Even more than 2 loose aggressive players will result in you rarely if ever having a good read, which means that you will be showing down pots and losing all the time.

Of course, if you play properly, you will score enough big pots to profit in this situation. But the variance can get just as big as NL with the right (wrong?) kind of players at your table.