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Originally Posted by PartysOver
cl0r0x70, i have a friend who is/was an AC pro living there for about a year and he was doing 55/hr at the 2/5 game...
last i heard he commutes from NYC now.. he had a tough time in the 5/10 game though so i dunno
I've had similar friends who've strung together 6 months like that. And then they have their first losing month and they get suspiciously quiet about their win rate. . . . You gotta realize that, broken out to 25 hands/hour, this represents 47+Big Blinds/100 hands. That's gotta represent a goodly amount of "running well."
The question is this: when you ask your buddy about his win rate, does he give you his "usual" win rate, or his "average" win rate? I could easily (and honestly) say that I "usually" do about $50-$60/hour. However, that wouldn't be counting uncommon -- but important -- events like the big downswing I had last month. . . after all, those downswings aren't "usual", right?
There are some things about my posted win rate:
1) I can only play during the week. The best games with the biggest fish run on the weekends. I'm sure I could win more if I were able to game select more, but my family is more important to me than win rate. I'm sure people who play exclusively on weekends (a lot of NY commuters in AC fit this description) would see their win rates drop once they had to play more hours during the week.
2) I went through a period of "loose" bookkeeping where I would've sworn to anybody that asked that I was making $60/hour. And then I tightened up my bookkeeping, and a more "true" rate started to emerge.
3) Maybe it's the economy, but I've noticed a lot more of the 5/10NL guys frequenting the 2/5NL tables, or at least splitting time between the two. This has made the games quite a bit tougher. My last session, there were 4-5 very good aggressive guys at my table, and only 1-2 fish, which is definitely not my usual experience at the Borgata on a Thursday. Maybe there's just fewer fish willing to spew $500 to the table than there were a year ago?
4) It is honest and accurate.
Last edited by cl0r0x70; 07-28-2008 at 03:00 PM.