Official August thread: General Discussion, Goals, Winrates, etc

[aejones]

Yves- I agree 100%. I've spent countless hours and sleepless nights thinking about this and how sick it is. Two bad beats, here or just one bad play there, and you're going from like +200 to +1300, or something like that. All that factors so greatly into your WR it is ridiculous.I think it's amazing how much hidden luck factors play into poker. How often guys with good WRs get set over set, or aces to kings preflop and paid off, or something like that. There are so many variables nothing can be accurately counted, that's why I don't ever take winrates seriously, I always figure that there are too many factors for anyone to convince me that even 100k or 200k hands can justify who is a "better" poker player.

This is a sick thing man. A sick, sick thing.