Re: $60 per hour?
 

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A guy I know was bragging that he's good for $60/hour playing 1/2 no limit online. He plays 4 tables at a time

Is this possible?

How much can a 'pro' expect to make playing 4 tables of 1/2 no limit?

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pros dont play online 1/2, maybe your talking about those "pros" that think they are good and dont know how to track winrates.

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play semantics much?

Re: $60 per hour?
 

Just using some of my own data to extrapolate: I've played 9806 hands in 4255 minutes with a MT ratio of 1.67. So if we do (9806/4255/1.67)*60*3.5 we get 290 hands per hour, if the MT ratio is 3.5. I'm guessing there's some time in which 4 tablers have to find new and better tables, right?
Then 15 PTBB/290 hands = $x/100 hands we find a winrate of 5.17 PTBB/100 in order to make $60 per hour. I'm sure some 4 tablers would post their own data to find out how many hands you play per hour on 4 tables.

That seems very doable.

Re: $60 per hour?
 

I've made $55 an hour at NL0.5/1 if you include bonuses, running a little hot for my first 15 000 hands. So yes, it's possible, but it's not easy. If you were new to poker and quite intelligent you could get there in 5 months

Re: $60 per hour?
 

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pros dont play online 1/2, maybe your talking about those "pros" that think they are good and dont know how to track winrates.

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Maybe he ment IF a pro would play at this level.

On the other hand, everyone whose only income is from playing poker is a pro, even if he play at 0.5/1 or 1000/2000. It's just as in many sports, there are a lot of pro's but they play in different levels (sports: divisions).

Re: $60 per hour?
 

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Just using some of my own data to extrapolate: I've played 9806 hands in 4255 minutes with a MT ratio of 1.67. So if we do (9806/4255/1.67)*60*3.5 we get 290 hands per hour, if the MT ratio is 3.5. I'm guessing there's some time in which 4 tablers have to find new and better tables, right?
Then 15 PTBB/290 hands = $x/100 hands we find a winrate of 5.17 PTBB/100 in order to make $60 per hour. I'm sure some 4 tablers would post their own data to find out how many hands you play per hour on 4 tables.

That seems very doable.

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I am averageing 400 hands/hr playing anywhere from 3-5 tables. Winrate is a gawdy 10+ ptbb/100 on a mediumish sample size. I doubt this is sustainable -- but I'll probably be playing 2/4 before I hit the statistical "long term". Math on that gives me a winrate of $160+/hr.

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I am averageing 400 hands/hr playing anywhere from 3-5 tables. Winrate is a gawdy 10+ ptbb/100 on a mediumish sample size. I doubt this is sustainable -- but I'll probably be playing 2/4 before I hit the statistical "long term". Math on that gives me a winrate of $160+/hr.

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Don't extrapolate winrates - it never, ever, works like that.

Re: $60 per hour?
 

Where did I ever, ever, ever extrapolate a win rate?