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Originally Posted by RagingOwl
What's the conventional wisdom regarding high-hand prizes and including them in your win-rate?
At first I figured this was just lucky "gravy" and left it out. I play in a room with hourly prizes and rarely more than 3 tables running. So it's not really hard to win one. Over the last couple months, playing about 10 hours per week, I've scooped maybe half a dozen of these prizes. So it's not really negligible "gravy" anymore. It's real money.
If you play in a room that takes $2 per hand for the jackpot and you never hit a high hand, your win rate is obviously going to be lower than a guy who plays in a room with no jackpot drop at all. If you win 2 pots per hour, hes got a $4/hr advantage on you.
If you hit your fair share of high hands or whatever bonuses your room pays, you should just about break even with the jackpot drop over the long term, so I include it. I dont see why you wouldnt. Actually the guy with no jackpot drop still has an advantage because most people give large tips (10%?) when they hit a high hand.
Your profit might be higher one month if you hit a couple jackpots and lower in months where you dont hit any, but long term it about the same as if there was no high hand drop at all so if you want a fair comparison to other players, I would include it.
Another subject is hourly comps or rakeback if you want to call it that. I play in the nittiest room on earth. My win rate is substantially higher in any other room in the area, but they pay $4.32/hr in comps (which I dont include in win rate), but makes a big difference in total profit.
Last edited by MikeStarr; 07-14-2018 at 09:06 AM.