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Originally Posted by OoberSick
fair enough. i wasn't bashing, just commenting.
also, as far as the seemingly high winrates, it's been my experience that they are possible but usually indicative of short sessions and/or small sample size.
a lot of times if i see someone with a 10bb+/hour rate, it will be with an average session of < 4 or 5 hours. when u play short sessions like that, you're almost never losing multiple buy ins, and when you double up you're win rate is huge. lets say you're at 1/2 and in a 4 hour session you double up your 300 and leave. that's 37.5bb/hr, which is huge. now lets say you stayed another 4 hours and won an additional $100, it's already dropped to 25bb/hr. If you stayed that extra time and actually lost $100 back, it's dropped to 12bb/hr.
thus a 10bb/hr winrate with an average session of 4 hours is NOT the same as a 10bb/hr rate with an average session of 8 hours. it means much much less as far as showing the skill of the player. and i don't say that to bash anyone that's posted a winrate like that, you very well may be able to sustain it for longer sessions, but that's just how it is.
as for what's sustainable and what isn't, it's going to change drastically with game structure and quality. from what i've seen in a 2/5 game with a 100bb buy in, i think 10bb/hr is approaching the best in the player pool IF you're average session is over 6 or 7 hours.
I have a hard time staying focused after 4-5 hours so I'm pretty sure my winrate would be less if I was playing longer sessions. Shorter sessions don't directly correlate to a higher winrate however game selection, having an effective stop loss and quitting tougher games when you aren't playing your A-game do.
No one that quits when they double up or have 300bb is going to have a top winrate.
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Originally Posted by Sol Reader
News flash: losing 6 buyins in 9 hours results in same hourly as losing 2 buyins in 3 hours.
Similarly if the latter happens 3 times (which will be like losing 6 bis in 9 hours) you'd end up losing the same amount. It's the same.
Just feel like pointing out that the probability of losing 6 buyins in 9 hours) > probability of losing 2 buyins in 3 hours three times in a row.
Anyone able to beat 1/2 for more than 10bb/hr is going to have a decent game. In order to be in the 20bb+/hr range you have to have to be one of the better players in your game and have the ability to play a high percentage of quality hours (focused, a-game, etc).