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wouldn't poker tracker records work? If you can show someone wins 3bb/100 hands over hundreds of thousands of hands wouldn't that be sufficient to show skill predominates?

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there'd have to be a fancier statistical analysis. obviously 50k or 100k is not enough hands, but is 500k? 10m? i think that 10m clearly would be but that's just my intuition.

the best way to do it would be to do some kind of analysis where you could say "at a 99.99% significance level, the player's true ptbb/100 is greater than 0." i don't know what kind of analysis you'd do to figure that out, but i'm sure it'd be possible. and i'm sure that if you did the analysis right with a winning player over a big sample then you'd find that it's nearly impossible for the results to be a lucky 0EV player.