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Originally Posted by Alex Trebek's Cat
Too bad. I just hope he's having fun because otherwise it seems like he's wasting his potential on poker and YouTube.
I usually don't read any of the comment sections but I did notice this in today's Bikeking vlog, Trooper left a nice comment:
Youtube Comment:
"TheTrooper97Vlog
6 hours ago
Yo Andrew! I put high hands right into my stack and count it as part of the session. The reason I do that is because every day I play, the take promo drop from my pots so I figure this is the best way to even it out and make it right. Money comes out of daily sessions, and goes back in. Believe it or not, the couple times I played freerolls, I put the time and buy in (the $10) into a cash session at the room and the stakes I normally play. But I like how you do it too."
I like the way Bikeking tracks promo money separately because then you can't fool yourself about how well you're playing. I see Trooper's point but for example if Trooper runs hot in promos and adds hundreds to his hourly from high hands and such he might think he's making $10/hr and playing well when he's really only making $2/hr and needs improvement.
Promo money should definitely be tracked separately. Players should have an hourly excluding promo money and can have a total income including promo money.
The reason for this is that if you play at different rooms and track your results to analyze later to see how well you are doing on each day of the week, at different times, and at different casinos, the promo money will skew your results way too much. If you have 2 high hands on a Tuesday night, it will inflate your hourly for Tuesdays way too much and will make you believe you should play more on Tuesdays than say Thursdays.
The same is true for monthly stats. If you have a month where you hit 3 high hands at $500 a pop, it will really over inflate your stats and will give you a FALSE sense of success when in reality, you are not doing that well.
At 1/2nl, a $20/hr win rate over 160 hours is $3200 a month. If you hit just 1 high hand for $500 that month, that raises your hourly to $23+. 2 high hands is $26+. And 3 high hands makes you think you are crushing it at almost $30/hr which is a 50% overestimate!
Losing and break even players use promo money to inflate their numbers to make themselves feel better...just like Trooper. I'm sure he counted his BBJ years ago as pure poker profit from his amazing skill of hitting BBJs. He knew he was gotta get the BBJ when he saw a physical tell from his opponent on the flop. He's taking that physical tell to the grave with him.