Standard Deviation of those of you who use pokertracker.

[DcifrThs]

well it seems statistical theory doesn't lie.

as your bb/100 goes up, so should your variance. you winning mid/high nl guys seem to have a very large variance (more so than at limit, which is counter to prevailing thoughts) and very high reterns.

so what is a PTBB? is it different than a big blind? or a big bet (2xbb)?

-Barron

[TheWorstPlayer]

I always thought that the variance, per se, was bigger for NL, but risk/reward was lower so the RoR was less. No?

[gomberg]

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what is a PTBB?

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PT BB is 2x big blind (big bet in limit, 2x big blind in NL).

[edge]

This month, my SD is at 50 BB/100 (25k hands of 3/6 and 5/10). Over my whole database of 100k hands, including about 30k at stakes under 2/4, I'm at 58 BB/100.

Edit: To get an approximately equivalent game, multiply the big blind of the NL game by about 4 or 5 and that will be the big bet of a limit game. If I wanted to do some math, I could figure something out of this.

[theben]

pardon my ignorance, but where do you find the SD in PT?

[gomberg]

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pardon my ignorance, but where do you find the SD in PT?

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Click on "More Detail" in the upper right on the sessions tab

[gomberg]

Ok - my SD is 40 Big bets / 100 (at 5/10 ~ $800)

my winrate is roughly 10 Big bets / 100 (at 5/10 ~ $200)

I'm not sure how this would compare to limit - but as a thought experiment, assume I made the same rate but at 3 big bets / 100 for limit poker, so this would be roughly a 30/60 game. If my big bet SD was 15, then that would be $1000 / 100, which would be more than what I have at no-limit ($800 / 100). Also, 3BB / 100 at limit is probably a rate only single-tabling experts could attain, thus NL has much less variance. Make sense?

[AceHiStation]

I think I am the winner... Standard Deviation of 66BBs/100. This may be affected by my recent loss of 7BBs in 1 day. I've played 23K+ hands and my BB/100 has dropped to a little over a measly 2BBs/100.

[Prevaricator]

hmmm

33BB/100 over 24k hands of 10/20 NL mostly full table

44BB/100 over 37k hands of 5/10 NL 6 max

[Dr. StrangeloveX]

Ask kanekungfu or strassa or GoG, to name a few.