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Originally Posted by sewhog
http://www.thehendonmob.com/alex_rou...yer_are_losers
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For the purpose of this article I’ve used a couple of my own databases-both from Full Tilt- which contains about 3.4 million hands each
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Increase the entry requirements to 5,000 hands, and only 721 HE players and 772 Omaha players are left.
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Thanks for explaining. Maybe you could also explain how 721 HE and 772 Omaha players played a total of 1,492 hands at over 5,000 hands each. Multiply 1,492 by 5,000 = 7,460,000 hands, but Alex Rousso only researched 6,800,000 hands?
Are you actually now trying to discredit an article that you originally posted in support your own belief, though erroneously, regarding the number of people who win at online poker?
Also, what does that sentence say? "721 HE and 772 Omaha players played a total of 1,492 hands at over 5,000 hands each" What? Where does 1,492 hands come from.
It seems that the people who posted right after you think that you meant the 1,492 number to refer to the total number of the HE and Omaha players. I can't figure out anything more likely than that so I'll go with that. The number of total players is actually 1,493, however.
1,493 * 5,000 = 7,465,000.
Anyway as has already been pointed out more than one player can play in the same poker hand. So one hand may be played, but 8 different players in the database may play in it. Therefore, multiplying the total number of players by 5,000 (the minimum number of hands played by said players) will not give you the smallest possible number of hands logged in the database. It may as well just give you a random number since it is completely useless.
Last edited by Lego05; 01-07-2012 at 04:25 AM.
Reason: I messed up the number too.