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Old 07-19-2005, 06:36 PM
Rudbaeck Rudbaeck is offline
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Default Re: 10% of poker players are winners???

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Its rare, but I admit I am very confused, I havent taken statistics in 8 years, can you explain in layman's terms?

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This would be so easy if I could draw for you! Wait, I can!

The purple line is a loser, the black line a winner. But due to the standard deviation people will rarely be observed exactly on their long term win rate. Their observed win rate forms a bell curve around their real win rate. (Real win rate is at the peak.)

How likely you are to observe a certain win rate is governed by the area under the graph. As you can see from my leet MS Paint skills you're quite likely to see a winner lose for 100 hands, or a loser win.

Edit: The Image linking doesn't work. Just click the link to see the awful picture.
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