The Long Run
 

It never occurred to me to ask until I started reading Dan paymer's book on Video Poker, but when accumulating playing time to "get into" the long run do you have to be playing for money?

Re: The Long Run
 

The trip into the long run began the day you were born (assuming you look at birth as a beginning) and will end the day you die (assuming you look at death as an ending). What you do or what stakes you play in between those delimiters doesn't matter to the long run, you're already in it.

I know this sounds like a facetious riddle, but it's not. The long run isn't a tally machine.

Regards,

T.

Re: The Long Run
 

To quote the great economist John Maynard Keynes

"In the long run, we're all dead."

Re: The Long Run
 

Yep,

You see there are two parallel universes with poker. The real money universe, and the play money universe. Each has its own long run. Your long run in the real money universe does not begin until you buy your first poker chip.

Stu