Playing for a certain number of hands
 

If i am 4 tabling full ring 5-10 NL, how many hours would it take me to play 1,000 hands? I am trying to limit the amount I play, so I figure i am going to shoot for playing 1,000 hands a day if I am 4 tabling, but hopefully if I add 2-4 more tables of ring I can sacrifice a bit of bb/100 to play 2,000 hands a day. Whenever i reach the number of hands, I would quit for the day and do something else with my time. Obviously if the table is SUPER juicy i could stay but as a guideline. is this at all reasonable?

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When trying to clear a recent deposit bonus, I think I cleared 500 hands of 1/2 6max within 2 hours. This was 8-tabling. I'm normally an SNG player, so when these deposit bonuses come, I try to finish them as quickly as possible. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Do you use pokertracker? If so, you can check your hands/hr for each table in there and come up with a good idea. If I had to take a wild guess I'd say you were getting ~55 hands per/hr/table. So it would take about 4.5-5 hours to get 1000 hands 4-tabling.

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approximately 4-5 hours at 4 tables

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If i am 4 tabling full ring 5-10 NL, how many hours would it take me to play 1,000 hands? I am trying to limit the amount I play, so I figure i am going to shoot for playing 1,000 hands a day if I am 4 tabling, but hopefully if I add 2-4 more tables of ring I can sacrifice a bit of bb/100 to play 2,000 hands a day. Whenever i reach the number of hands, I would quit for the day and do something else with my time. Obviously if the table is SUPER juicy i could stay but as a guideline. is this at all reasonable?

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At $100NL on Party (.5/1), I average 61 hands per hour per table. Other sites you won't get nearly that many hands per hour though.

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I think I cleared 500 hands of 1/2 6max within 2 hours. This was 8-tabling.

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Clearly this was 500 RAKED hands.
You played many unraked hands in there too.


On full-tables I would approximate 60 hands/hr per table (little more for a fast-moving limit game, a little less for a slow-moving NL game).

On 6-max limit it can be about 90-95 hands/hr per table.

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Might sound like a stupid question, but if you are "trying to limit" how much you play to do something else with your time, why not just play for a fixed amount of time? After all that is the commodity you are looking to invest elsewhere.