After 1 year, how many BB should you be up?

[Taso]

After 1 year of playing, I'm up about 2,600 BB in NL hold 'em. I don't know what the average is (I did a search) but feel this is rather low? Obviously it will depend on the circumstances and all that, but just in general? I started recording all of my session wins/losses last May after I had been playing a few months.

I have been losing consistantly for a few weeks now, with some really big suckouts hitting me hard and so I've taken a two week break because my spirits might break completly if I play and lose a couple more times :P I know, a few weeks isn't bad at all for a bad streak, and the fact that I'm up in this game helps me to remember that I'm not just some losing idiot, so I'm glad I keep track. It was just a few weeks there, when I REALLY needed a win and couldn't find one. So I'm sort of, re-evaluating my game, seeing what I'm doing wrong, etc.

I'm not sure what the point of this post is, I guess I'm just wondering if there is an average of what one should make in a year. Although now I'm thinking, it will depend on how many games you play, how long you are playing for...Whatever.

[MaxRaises]

Obviously the average is somewhere around -x BB
(where x is close to zero, but the rake hurts profits of course)

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[Lord_Strife]

I think translating online win rate to time is a bad decision. Keep it in terms of BBs/100 and then just look at how many hands you've played in a year. I don't know if there is a way to actually say how much you "should" be up because people win in different ways. You might be a 4bb/100 and someone else is a 1bb/100 winner but it cant really be said that you "should" be at a certain amount.

[Pokerfarian]

After 1 year, you should be up 7471 BBs

[Gonso]

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Keep it in terms of BBs/100

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[Guthrie]

It depends entirely on how many BBs you are dealt during that year.

[qpw]

It obviously depends how good you are!

And how many hands you played.

And how good the opposition was.

The question is, I fear, without a great deal of further information, quite meaningless.

[Taso]

Sorry - I should have clairified. I'm not an online player, so I don't have any software or anything that keeps track of how many hands I play.

I'm just asking, in general terms...The players who make a living off the game, a decent living, not neccesarily the big all stars (be it online or live) but just the average pro... Nevermind I guess?

[deucethree]

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Nevermind I guess?

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It's just a really generic question so it's hard to answer. I'm pretty sure there are quite a few threads on win rates, but they're usually broken down by hands or hours played, not by calendar time.

Also, obviously the level you're playing at will make a big difference. Fewer bb's at a bigger game would be expected and most feel the majority of live games are softer (on a per hand rate anyway) than the on-line games and that certain places on-line have more favorable conditions than others. All that's going to make a big difference.

[Guthrie]

If you're playing live, and you play 25 hands per hour, 8 hours per day, that's 200 hands per day, so if you win 4BB/100 hands, that's 8 BB per day, 40 BB per 5-day week, 2000 BB per year with two weeks off for vacation.