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08-29-2005, 02:09 PM
If you have 2BB/100 or more after 10K hands, does this mean you can handle the level you're playing at?
Grisgra
08-29-2005, 02:10 PM
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If you have 2BB/100 or more after 10K hands, does this mean you can handle the level you're playing at?

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Please, change the "your" to "you're" in the subject header while you still have a chance, and before I have an embolism. Thank you.

Oh. And yeah, 2BB/100 over 10k hands doesn't guarantee you're a winning player, but it's a pretty good sign.
DMBFan23
08-29-2005, 02:10 PM
no, you can run that hot without being a winner. you can also run much worse when in reality you're a huge winner. but if you read the forums, have read some books, and you think you know what you're doing, then likely your winrate isn't all luck. keep at it, you have built up some money so unless you need to spend it on rent then what do you have to lose
08-29-2005, 02:11 PM
Are there other "benchmarks" you can use when you wanna know if you can handel the level you're playing at?
08-29-2005, 02:14 PM
Sorry 'bout that. /images/graemlins/smile.gif My English isn't superb, I'm Norwegian...
krishanleong
08-29-2005, 02:25 PM
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If you have 2BB/100 or more after 10K hands, does this mean you can handle the level you're playing at?

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Not necessarily. The best way to find out is to take a shot.

Krishan
08-29-2005, 02:31 PM
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The best way to find out is to take a shot.

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This isn't right. Presumably the poster can't tell where he stands skill-wise just by watching others play, so he's looking at winrate. "Taking a shot" won't tell him anything because he could run unusually well or poorly during his "shot." If you need to look to winrate to tell you where you stand then you're probably best served by logging more hands than 10,000. I'm no statistician, but I'd say 25,000 or so. Or use the 300-500 BBs won standard for moving up and then move back down if you get below that level.
antifish225
08-29-2005, 02:37 PM
10K is not a big enough sample size to tell for sure - I have had some GREAT and TERRIBLE 10K hand swings - wait until you get in 25Kish hands and you can have a higehr confidence level in your win rate......but seems like you are doing well.....
DMBFan23
08-29-2005, 02:43 PM
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wait until you get in 25Kish hands and you can have a higehr confidence level in your win rate

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higher yes, but still not very meaningful
krishanleong
08-29-2005, 02:47 PM
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"Taking a shot" won't tell him anything because he could run unusually well or poorly during his "shot."

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Ha ha. Well when you take a shot, just like deciding to take a shot, you don't judge by your BB per 100.

Krishan
antifish225
08-29-2005, 04:48 PM
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wait until you get in 25Kish hands and you can have a higehr confidence level in your win rate

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higher yes, but still not very meaningful

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Agreed - play more
Rubeskies
08-29-2005, 05:33 PM
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Please, change the "your" to "you're" in the subject header while you still have a chance, and before I have an embolism. Thank you.

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Easy killer. We aren't all native english speakers here.
Grisgra
08-29-2005, 05:35 PM
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Please, change the "your" to "you're" in the subject header while you still have a chance, and before I have an embolism. Thank you.

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Easy killer. We aren't all native english speakers here.

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Fair enough. Enough of the native english speakers get it wrong that I'm a little edgy /images/graemlins/smile.gif.
Rubeskies
08-29-2005, 05:42 PM
its goin be alot of sufering for yoo becaus their ain't gonna learn.


But yes, I agree that standards have fallen.
Grisgra
08-29-2005, 05:47 PM
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its goin be alot of sufering for yoo becaus their ain't gonna learn.


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I believe that "yoo" has THREE o's.
Rubeskies
08-29-2005, 05:48 PM
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its goin be alot of sufering for yoo becaus their ain't gonna learn.


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I believe that "yoo" has THREE o's.

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Touché
Subfallen
08-29-2005, 07:05 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That is all.

I was 8BB/100 after my first 10k hands I played 5/10. That was 6 months ago, and for the life of me I still can't figure out if I'm a winning player.
einbert
08-29-2005, 07:27 PM
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Ha ha. Well when you take a shot, just like deciding to take a shot, you don't judge by your BB per 100.

Krishan

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This is the correct answer.

Unfortunately, most people don't want to actually think this much. They want their computers to display a nice round number that tells them how good they are.