$60 per hour?
 

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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The answer to this can sort of be extrapolated from the FAQ at the beginning of this forum. But a conservative estimate at 1/2 stakes would be about $60/hour. The real problem is actually putting in the hours, which I am finding harder and harder to do. And I only play $25NL!

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I made that doing 1.5 tables at a time before I moved up and up. It's very manageable. 6max, btw.

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I made that doing 1.5 tables at a time before I moved up and up. It's very manageable. 6max, btw.

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1.5 tables? How do you mean? And was it $200NL stakes?

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4 tabling 200NL 6max, $60/hr is about 4ptbb/100. Very doable. Twice that or more is doable, IMO.

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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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I made that doing 1.5 tables at a time before I moved up and up. It's very manageable. 6max, btw.

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1.5 tables? How do you mean? And was it $200NL stakes?

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1.5 tables meaning that I played one table about half the time, and two tables about half the time. It comes from PokerTracker (get it if you're serious about winning). It is from party 200nl 6max. Playing so few tables makes it easier to concentrate, and I found that i could watch the simpsons on my computer screen and pay attention just fine. Some people need to play more to stay interested, i don't.

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Definitely possible.
But people have a way of making that sound easier than it is.

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Definitely possible.
But people have a way of making that sound easier than it is.

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That is true, too.

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I beat the 1/2 NL for more than $60/hr.

$100/hr is very very doable.

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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?

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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'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

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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).

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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.

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