Re: BB / 100
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per 100 hands dealt
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It wouldn't make sense any other way. If you kept track by hands played past the flop, the number would be more dependent on starting hand selection than whether you were a winning or losing poker player.
Imagine player A and player B both make an average of 2BB on every hand they play past the flop. Are they equally successful poker players?
Hopefully your answer was not enough info. Lets say player A only sees flops when he has AA,KK,QQ and player B follows a starting hand chart he got from a book that has him play about 20% of his hands outside the blinds. Now who do think is a more successful player?
Hopefully you now realize that player A is losing all his money to the blinds since AA-QQ only comes along once every 74 hands and that 2BB is not paying for 8 rounds of blinds. Player B is probably a winning player if he is averaging 2BB / hand played and playing one out of every 5 hands outside the blinds.
When you look at BB/100 hands dealt, you have a meaningful number that has a direct correlation with how much money a player is making playing poker.
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