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Old 08-30-2007, 02:46 PM
CmnDwnWrkn CmnDwnWrkn is offline
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Default Re: What is a good hourly rate for $0.25/$0.50 - 6 handed?

You won't get an accurate idea of your true win rate, and thus your hourly rate, until you've played tons of hands (in the range of hundreds of thousands). Until you've played that many hands, I think it makes more sense to focus on playing solid poker and not being so results oriented.

A good player with a winrate of 6 ptbb/100 over a large sample size could easily have a winrate of -20 ptbb/100 or +30 ptbb/100 over a small sample size (a few hundred hands). Variance prevents you from determining your true win rate over a small sample size.

The more hands you have records of, the more accurate you winrate will be, but keep in mind that it is very common for long-term winning players to break even or lose over thousands of hands or for long-term losing players to win over thousands of hands.
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