How many hours should be logged before results can really be looked at? I understand the more the better but there are so many hours I can get in after work/weekends. Only at 40 hours for the year

I look at mine every month or so. But you need at least 500 hours to really say anything IMO. Anything can happen over a hundred hours.

1000 hours is the standard.

Honestly for rec player @40hr month. You will never know your winrate. As game will change so many times during that 1000 hr mark. That it effects your actual Expected winrate.

But keep tracking/ keep winning it's fun to look back.

If your still tracking at end of year. Then you have had a good year, because losers generally stop tracking their results at some point.

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At 40 hours per month, you'll put in close to 500 in a year (which is about what I put in recreationally per year). In ~7 years of playing, I've booked as good as a 11.83 bb/hr year, and booked as bad as a 2.63 bb/hr year, and everything in between. So as you can see, you'll have a very difficult time drawing any meaningful conclusions about how exactly you're doing, although you may get a sense as to whether you are a winner or loser in your game, but only after booking a few years worth of those types of hours.

Instead, perhaps concentrate on making as good as decisions as you can as often as you can. That's also difficult to do (as who really knows what is right?), but one step is by posting some hands and seeing if you consistently get a consensus that you are ****ing up a lot of streets, or whether you are playing fairly decently on a lot of streets.

Ggoodluck!G

I used to believe 500 or 1000 hours, it's not enough. So many ways to run good or bad that we can't even fathom. I'd say 3k hours you have clue

The worse you are, the more hours you will need, the better you are, the less.

f 2017

atleast there are not more 0s on the y axis

I have 6 out of 6 winning sessions so far in February with a StnDev of $38/hr at $2/$5. Yes, that's 7.6BB/hr StnDev. LOL

10 winning sessions in a row in total (I'm sure I just jinxed myself). Only a total of $2000 won though.

My record is 14 in a row for a total of $6174. That streak was a lot more fun than this one, but I'm not complaining.

Down $600 in 100 hours?

And by the 3K mark your pool has most likely changed so much that your current winrate is irrelevant with regards to what you should expect moving forward in your current pool.

GcluelesswinratenoobG

+1

I'm down $51 for the year so far.

However, in my second biggest winning year (of seven total) I was ~breakeven thru May, so still a lotta time to rebound.

Gplummettingtowardsbusto!G

Haha. I'm down $1100 in 107 hours so far this year. Hooray a couple of bad RxR sessions.

From the hands I've played so far this year, I could easily have been up just as much if just a couple of the big ones go another way, or if I connected with a flop in a multi-way $20+ pre PLO hand. Three good sessions and I'm back even.

+-<$1k isn't really anything to worry about IMO.

PLO is currently pulling me out of my largest NL downswing I've ever experienced. How's that for a funny sentence?

Good thing PLO is so consistently non swongy.

Gbackupplan#2:fallingbackon2/4LimittobringyououtofthePLOdownswing?G

Impressive symmetry

Swinging life away.

Feels decent to be on the uptick recently.

I had an absolute sick sunrun week in January.

But I already spent all of the money and now I feel gross af

Just to share my run good. Been in Chicago for a few days and up a bit over $5k in 20 hours. Ran like a god tonight so trying not to let the good variance go to my head.

let's give 2017 a chance

Quick question. I have seen on here that if you are getting around 5 to 10 bbs/hour in NL games you are doing well. What about limit games? What should be a good bbs/hour rate?

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I'd ask in a limit forum, but the general wisdom that I remember from old poker books was that a good player could expect to win about 1 Big Bet (equivalent to 2 Big Blinds) per hour.

Great. Thank you. Sorry about that, I forgot this was nl forum.

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The best make 7-8 bb/hr in NL. More than that is NOT sustainable.

1 big bet/hour is the standard good winrate in limit, at least according to Rounders.

Citation needed. Several folks ITT have posted graphs of over 1K (and in a couple of cases 2K) hours with WRs over 10bb/hr.

Not saying it's common, but it has definitely been done on a sustained basis.