Help with % of winners in PT

timex · #1 09-20-2005, 07:05 PM

Because its over such a small hand sample. Ie. if you play headsup against players, and only play one hand against each player, the average win % will be right near 50%, but that doesnt mean 50% are winning players. If you play 2 hands against each player, percentages will will get closer to average. Basicly, in poker tracker lots of the losing players have such huge standard deviations, that 20 or 100 or 500 hands doesn't determine whether or not they are winning players.

#2 09-21-2005, 02:57 AM

Yes, but they wouldn't skew to winners disproportionately.

I think every DB has 35-45% of players as winners because 35-45% of players are winners.

Moozh · #3 09-23-2005, 03:21 AM

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Yes, but they wouldn't skew to winners disproportionately.

I think every DB has 35-45% of players as winners because 35-45% of players are winners.

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That's because everyone has a small sample size of players.

Say that there are 10% winners... even 30% or so of the rest will win over a small sample of 1000 hands (even if we know they've already lost much more).

Everyone has small snapshots of everyone else. The only way for it to converge on reality is for someone to have the full picture (every hand everyone has played).