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Originally Posted by TheDefiniteArticle
I don't think there's anyone who beats 100NL or above for 10bb on Stars, and I'm not sure there's anyone who reaches 5bb on 200NL zoom. Reg tables maybe some bumhunters/people with mega-fast scripts.
Maybe you or someone can answer this. I see 10NL, 100NL thrown around and I'm pretty certain it just means $10 and $100 are the max buy-ins respectively, 100bbs. So in this case 100NL means $.50 sb and $1 bb. And when you say someone beats 100NL for 10bb, you mean they beat it for 10bb per 100 hands, right?
So just for fun I railed a 100NL full ring game for about 20 mins and timed the average hand length - 68 seconds average from button move to button move. Based on this average it would take 6,800 seconds (113 mins) to play 100 hands. A person who beats that limit for 10bb would make $10 in 113 minutes, or $5.31 per hour. Lower than the minimum wage for all but two states that have one.
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Even by taking the high end of performance (10bb) a player who plays one table makes less than minimum wage. So how do these players make money? Are they playing a bunch of tables and still winning, making $20, $30 per hr? That payout hardly seems worth the reward of all the hours put in studying the game and grinding up a bankroll to play at that level considering any graduate with a worthwhile degree can easily make that amount right out of school.