Re: Caro Article
An often cited statistic (people who use Poker Tracker without filtering the number of hands in their preferences know this one from their "Summary" tab) is that about 60% of the players are losers and 40% are winners when it comes to online NL cash games.
This statistic, however, is not talking about "regular" players. This statistic includes *all* players, so someone who only played 10 hands in the past 6 months and basically just sat down at his computer completely hammered and moved all-in on every hand until he was broke is counted in these stats. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
If anyone is interested, I can pull up the breakdown when it comes to *regular* players (again, only for online NL cash games in mid-stakes: $200 - $1k buy-ins) when I get back home.
Of course, there are some other interesting problems with these stats when it comes to online play... some players get counted multiple times if they are allowed to switch their login names. Also, we really should have three categories: Winning, Losing, Break-even. I don't think it's really right to count someone as a "losing" or "winning" player if they have lost/won $50 in their last 15,000 hands playing NL $600.
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