Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

OK, $2 big blind, 300 hands an hour, $100 per hour. 50 big blinds per hour. 50 big blinds per 300 hands, 16.7 BB/100 hands.

Essentially, your claim is that your friend wins about 17 BB/100 hands at $1/2 $100 max NL. Not knowing anything about no limit winrates, I'll leave it to those that do to claim "ach ach" or "nicht nicht" on these figures.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

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OK, $2 big blind, 300 hands an hour, $100 per hour. 50 big blinds per hour. 50 big blinds per 300 hands, 16.7 BB/100 hands.

Essentially, your claim is that your friend wins about 17 BB/100 hands at $1/2 $100 max NL. Not knowing anything about no limit winrates, I'll leave it to those that do to claim "ach ach" or "nicht nicht" on these figures.

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For some crazy reason i've been told that NL win rates are quoted in "big bets" i.e 2x the big blind..... even though there are no big bets in no limit.

so 8.35bb/100 matches up to what is possible.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

This discussion came up the other day and Astroglide said it was big blinds, not big bets.

I don't know who's right.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

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This discussion came up the other day and Astroglide said it was big blinds, not big bets.

I don't know who's right.

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I don't know either.... there was a 30 post thread a while back where everyone tried to convice me that I was wrong for thinking that it was "big blinds".... I'd find it but it was pretty embarassing!

"I'm making Xbb/100"
"No way you're actually making 1/2xbb/100... see you thought you were all good actually you're 1/2 as good as us"
"*Sigh*"

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

From Schwza:

"between 10bb/100 and 15bb/100 is very good. between 5 and 10 isnt bad. "

He was referring to big blinds. Hence your 8 big bet theory is on the outer edge of what seems possible but the NL guys seem to talk in terms big blinds.

I gotta learn me some no limit.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

The high-end number I have been seeing for NL small-stakes games is a win rate of 10 big blinds per hour. If he is playing 5 tables, and playing $1/$2 blind and winning 10 big blinds per hour, that comes out to $100 per hour. I see this as possible for a very good player with a very good memory and sense of what is going on, covering those five tables. My results for .50/$1 are 12BB, but I can not play five games. At most, I handle three fairly well. Since I am really not that strong, I believe your friend may well be able to win at this rate for an extended period of time.

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Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

It's really quite simple. In NL there is no such thing as the big bet. The minimum every round is the big blind and the maximum is whatever you have in front of you at the time. However most everyone uses PT. PT is mainly written for limit players, but works for NL as well. When PT calculates win rate they always give it in big bets, ie 2x the big blind.

Because most use PT the standard way to report your win rate is in bb/hr where bb = 2x big blind.

In every other discussion (how deep people are etc.) bb is short for big blind.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

"vassup!?" or "ich don't think so!"

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--turnipmonster

The cat is out of the bag
 

It is very possible to earn 50hr+ playing 1/2 NL online. This is the beauty of NL, one can parlay a 1500-2000 dollar bankroll into 1500-2000 weekly earnings. The players who do so have strong fundamentals and even more importantly the discipline and psycholigical makeup to play their best game 100% of the time. I think the latter is more rare than the former.

Re: $100+/hr Playing Small Stakes NL: It\'s Possible
 

fwiw-

when i was playing the party NL100. PT had me at 5.03BB/100, or 10.06big blinds/100.

$100/hr at those games seems like an impressive run to me.

btw, if he is playing at a site like UB or gaming club,then more BB/hr are possible due to the deeper stacks.

if its party, what is his handle as i have probably played against him before?