Do winning players take money from other winning players?

BeerMoney · #1 11-19-2004, 10:56 AM

Suppose there are two players at a table.. One is 4BB/hr, and the other is 2BB/hour.. Does the 4BB guy take money directly from the 2 bb/hour guy, or does he just do a better job of taking money from the fish?

ZeeJustin · #2 11-19-2004, 11:05 AM

All longterm profit in poker comes from the mistakes of others. The 4BB/hr makes fewer mistakes than the 2BB/hr player. The 2BB/hr player would be making significantly more money if the 4BB/hr player left the game.

Iceman · #3 11-19-2004, 11:39 AM

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Suppose there are two players at a table.. One is 4BB/hr, and the other is 2BB/hour.. Does the 4BB guy take money directly from the 2 bb/hour guy, or does he just do a better job of taking money from the fish?

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Assuming you're talking about limit holdem, if anyone makes 4 BB/hr, most of the rest of the table would have to play absolutely horribly. I would assume that the 4 BB/hr guy would do a much better job of taking money from the fish than the 2 BB/hr guy. In Texas Holdem at least, when you're talking about two strong players in a game otherwise filled with loose-passive fish, the strong players will rarely be in a pot together, and will hardly win anything from one another. In no-limit, if you have a huge winner, a moderate winner, and a lot of fish (the huge winner and moderate winner would earn a lot more than 4 and 2 BB/hr respectively), then the huge winner might win a lot from the moderate winner as well as from the fish.

CORed · #4 11-19-2004, 12:16 PM

For the most part, the winning players are not taking money from each other directly. However, with two winning players in the game, the win rate of both will decrease because they are now both taking money from the fish. With just one winning player in the game, when the winning player is not involved in the hand, money is passed to one of the fish by the rest of the fish, but the winning player will eventually get that money. With two winning players, when one of the winning players is in the hand, he gets money from the fish, and he is much less likely to give that money to the other winning player than one of the fish would be.