How Many people can beat 5/10+ Online?(LC)

[dtan05]

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I was talking to a buddy of mine whom I haven't seen since the WSOP and, as always, conversation came about to online poker. He told me that he put about 10k online and then, being a lot smarter than your average person, started datamining the [censored] out of Full Tilt (I believe). He found out over 500k hands of datamining, that only 4 players total on the whole site were beating the game at 2/4nl for over 4 PTBB/100. These are his words, not mine, but you can extrapolate from there and the picture does not look good.

Kirk

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I think theres a pretty big difference between 2/4 and 5/10+ in this regard though. Mainly because, if you can beat 2/4 over a large sample, you usually move up to 3/6, and so on. I think that theres something wrong with anybody who puts in 50k+ hands at 2/4 while winning at that rate. But its a pretty steep slope once you get above 5/10, and continually moving up is more and more difficult.

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QFT

[Bukem_]

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I think that theres something wrong with anybody who puts in 50k+ hands at 2/4 while winning at that rate.

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Hi. I'm one of the 4pt guys at 2/4, over a big sample(like embarrassingly big). Def something wrong with me, I don't look higher for big fish. I have Spadeye and never use it. My results of late at 3/6 are extremely good, yet I keep on choosing 2/4 as my main game. I'm overrolled even for 5/10 with just the money I keep on the sites.

Its some combination of having a fear of failure, having a fear of testing myself and finding out exactly where I'm not smart enough to succeed. I will look at the people playing 3/6+, look at their stats and be intimated. But as soon as I sit I realize just how bad some of these guys are, and feel very comfortable. But even after playing, winning and outplaying people I don't really want to keep playing at the higher level. I'm just too comfortable at 2/4 where no swing can fade me, and I'm happy for whatever reason knowing that I'm playing against opponents that are rarely tough. Also I'm older so fear of going broke is more real for me than if I was 19, only I take it too far.

I would like to be playing higher, mostly know what my problems are, yet don't make it a priority to do so.