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Old 01-13-2007, 02:48 PM
maddis maddis is offline
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as the subject tells, I want your opinions if you think that i am a winning player based on the following informations:

I played 91 hu matches in the past week, i won 65 of them. so my winn:lose ratio is
1 : 3,0952. do you think that 91 matches are enough to say that i am a continous winning player, or is it possible that it was just luck that i won so many games (i think 3:1 is good, or isnt it?).

thanks for your thoughts,
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Old 01-13-2007, 03:01 PM
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It is more likely then not that you are a winning player
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Old 01-13-2007, 04:47 PM
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Either way, congrats on the heater.
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Old 01-13-2007, 05:33 PM
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If you win 71% of your games then you're a 2.5:1 favorite . You would have to play around 500 heads up matches to be close to your true win rate . This depends on how close you want your confidence level to be . If you really want to know how accurate you are , then please tell me your s.d over 91 matches and I can compute your confidence level . If you aren't sure of how to do this , let me know .
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Old 01-13-2007, 06:05 PM
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hi, i am not sure what my s.d is!? can you explain me jay_shark?
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Old 01-13-2007, 06:12 PM
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your standard deviation .

I'll create a post on this topic because it takes a bit of time to explain it . On the other hand , there are certain programs that can do this for you .
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Old 01-13-2007, 06:23 PM
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i have no program installed atm, but i am thinking of buying pokertracker in the next time
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Old 01-13-2007, 06:43 PM
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pokertracker should do the trick .
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Old 01-13-2007, 07:22 PM
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Default Re: am I a winning player?

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as the subject tells, I want your opinions if you think that i am a winning player based on the following informations:

I played 91 hu matches in the past week, i won 65 of them. so my winn:lose ratio is
1 : 3,0952. do you think that 91 matches are enough to say that i am a continous winning player, or is it possible that it was just luck that i won so many games (i think 3:1 is good, or isnt it?).

thanks for your thoughts,
Maddis

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(Sorry if there are some spelling mistakes in my posts, i am from germany.)

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u should be around +-10% of your real winrate after 100 games with 95% confidence... so i make a quick guess here:
winrate % is around 71 +-11% (cause u have less than 100 game)=60,81, quick guess for over 99% confidence is 55,86 (% winrate for sure).
so statistically your are almost surely an over 55 % winner.
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Old 01-15-2007, 10:43 AM
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Default Re: am I a winning player?

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as the subject tells, I want your opinions if you think that i am a winning player based on the following informations:

I played 91 hu matches in the past week, i won 65 of them. so my winn:lose ratio is
1 : 3,0952. do you think that 91 matches are enough to say that i am a continous winning player, or is it possible that it was just luck that i won so many games (i think 3:1 is good, or isnt it?).

thanks for your thoughts,
Maddis

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(Sorry if there are some spelling mistakes in my posts, i am from germany.)

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In HU, I find that you can tell fairly accurately how good you are based on your comfort level / control of the match. If you have a clear plan for every opponent and are only taken out of your comfort zone by a few very good / ultraaggro opponents, then there's no way you are not a winner except perhaps at $550s+, but even there you can find plenty of fish to pad the win%.

Assuming you are a good player with clear gameplans against every opponent, there is essentially a distribution where a portion of them are complete fish with huge holes that you should be able to beat ~90%+ of the time, and then some players vs. whom your edge is very slight / marginal, and probably negative when not playing your A game. And then there are players in the middle with slight holes that are not big enough for you to withstand a very cold deck.

If you were to know roughly this distribution, you could fairly accurately determine your winrate without playing any statistically significant number of games.
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