Now that 2017 is over and completed, it's time for an update.
Let's start with the overall stats from 7/2/2008:
$37,626 in winnings over 5355.6 hours, $7.03/hr
Giraffe!
How about by game?
Most of that time has been spent at $1/2 NLHE, accounting for $34,638 in winnings over 4398.7 hours ($7.87/hr).
The next most common game is either $1/2 RxR or $1/2 PLO. I'm going to lump these games together, combining the $2 bring in and $5 bring in games, along with a few random $0/5 and $1/3 sessions. I don't think there's significant difference between RxR and PLO as the PLO rounds take three times longer than the NLHE rounds, and so many players fold or get up during NLHE.
$4,444 in winnings (weird number but it's correct) over 741.4 hours for $5.99/hr.
There are a smattering of other structures and tournaments that aren't important, but are the difference between the red and the green in the figure:
Pretty clear that my NLHE game has gotten better since I started, and more consistent. If you zoom in on the line and draw upper and lower bounds on where it bounces around there's a pretty clear $700-1000 band of week to week variability.
PLO has been a bit of a struggle so far. Very swingy and generally a downward trajectory to start off. Followed by a little karmic justice to right the ship.
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So on to this year:
$7349 in winnings over 631.1 hours, netting a WR of $11.64/hr.
Not super great, but I'll take it after some of the run-bad I had. Pretty good volume too.
I managed to get 163 sessions in (there are a few 2-3 session days) with an average length of 3.87 hours.
65 NLHE sessions, 93 PLO/RxR sessions. That's attributable to my local home game switching from mostly NLHE with some RxR or PLO later in the evening towards RxR to start and earlier and earlier transitions from RxR to PLO (went from midnight to 11 to now 9pm).
NLHE: +$1548 over 226.4 hours for $6.84/hr
PLO: +$5761 over 390.3 hours for $14.76/hr
In graph form:
As you can see my year started off pretty marginally, ran it up, bled it back down, then went on a nice little PLO heater. Despite the 2017 results, I really want to get more NLHE time in for 2018. It's still my better game overall.
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For some additional analysis, here's my favorite figure:
Trailing winrate is defined by looking at each session and calculating the winnings of the previous 500 or 100 hours (or as close as we can get with the discrete session lengths). This is only for $1/2 NLHE, so it's pretty similar to the last time I made it. Shows the large variability and near uselessness of 100 hours samples, the large differences that occur in even 500 hour samples, and the difficulty in moving our overall rate as our sample gets large.
The corresponding standard deviation figure is:
Using the correction factor mentioned a few posts up-thread.
Final value is just about $73/hr.
My lifetime (all games) distribution of session length is:
With no strong correlation between winrate and session length:
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There's periodically a discussion of day-of-the-week impact on WR ... so:
Mon -$694.5 1169.4 hrs -$0.59/hr
Tue $2904.5 375.6 hrs $7.73/hr
Wed $3905 371.5 hrs $10.51/hr
Thu $3516 468.7 hrs $7.5/hr
Fri $4160 550.1 hrs $7.56/hr
Sat $11,162 1312.2 hrs $8.51/hr
Sun $12,673 1108.1 hrs $11.44/hr
These are classified by the session *end* time.
I'm really not sure why Mondays are so bad. Could be that we used to play PLO on Sunday nights. Could be something else. Otherwise this looks like there is little difference between the days. My eyeballs tell me that this is because of the weird charity room situation in MI where we have crazy games during the week 2 blocks from people's houses *IN* a bar, but the stats don't really make that clear.