I should have read your original post a little more carefully.
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Over the last 5K hands or so, it's much lower at just above 12.
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This is a very small sample. One of the guys here is working on trying to see how quickly SD should converge, but the chart below indicates that it can change significantly over this kind of sample size. [This chart represents my running SD over ~13K hands in a live kill game. Also, I went from raw beginner to raw whatever I am now over this time period, so this data isn't ideal.]