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Old 12-02-2005, 11:10 AM
AKQJ10 AKQJ10 is offline
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Default Re: Update as a beginner...

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I have over 100K hands in PT and I am not sure if I am a winning player. I think you need somewhere between 250k and 500k before you can start to make an honest assessment.

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So before online poker, a pro had to play over a year to know if they were a winning player*? I don't buy it.

You can tell by theory if you're playing well enough to beat the game you play in, even if technically you don't have a large sample. I know I can beat the Foxwoods $2/4 because I play moderately well and my opponents play abysmally. I don't need a statistically significant sample to know that.

*50 hands/hr * 10 hours/day * 350 days / year -> 175K hands, all with fairly generous assumptions.
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