How many hands?

[lil feller]

I there, new to poker tracker and was wondering what the commonely accepted value is for a decent sized hand sampling (i'm at 1500 right now).

[astroglide]

40k

[Lost Wages]

Link (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=838515&page=&view=&sb =5&o=&vc=1)

Lost Wages

[npc]

Depends on what stats you want. If you're looking to compute your standard deviation in a limit game, 100 hours (about 3,000 hands) is probably enough. If you're looking to determine your hourly earn, a bare minimum number would probably be about 15,000 to 20,000 hands (500 hours).

If you want stats for big-bet poker or multi-table tournaments, you probably need much more data than this.