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Originally Posted by Rod the Bod
This makes zero sense. Your WR is a reflection of the EV-ness of your decisions.
WR is money made per unit time.
EV is money made per unit money spent.
Recreational players are making the same amount of money whethet they're at the table or not or how good the table is. Pros don't. If a pro waits for a table for an hour, it's the equivalent of getting docked an hour's pay.
Because pros are constantly withdrawing from their bankrolls, playing a bad game is often preferential to playing in no game. Play at Casino A where a great +10 bb/hr game runs but you may get blocked out and the game has a 50% chance of disintegrating after 3 hours; or Casino B, which has a decent +5 bb/hr game which runs like clockwork 10 hours a day?
EV x time = WR
In blackjack, there's a concept called Wonging. Basically, you sit out all the negative counts, but play the positive ones. You end up with really high EV but not tremendously high WR, because you still have to sit there and count during the negative counts. It's very common for people to ask how to maximize their EV at blackjack - the answer is to count shoe after shoe for hours/days/weeks without playing a hand until you find the one in a million hand where the true count is +10 or something outrageous, then plunk down your life savings. But that leads to a super low WR because you play a hand a week.