-534bb over 724 hands.

#1 19th April 2007, 12:56 PM

I read the above on a thread, but have no idea what it means!

Is there a thread or site with a glossary of this and other abbreviations? I feel like a politician at a calculus seminar...

#2 19th April 2007, 2:18 PM

he lost big blinds / hands there is a thread somewhere with abreviations on it maybe one of the others coukld find it i have not been able too

#3 19th April 2007, 2:31 PM

-534bb over 724 hands means that there was a loss of 534 big blinds in a course of 724 hands

#4 19th April 2007, 6:10 PM

Note that there is a distinction between BB and bb.

BB = big bets, or 2x the big blind. This is usually used in reference to limit holdem, where the bet doubles on the turn. Pokertracker automatically defaults to BB when giving your win rate, although you can tell it to use bb when referring to NL games.

bb= big blinds (as noted in the above replies). It is more usual to refer to your wins (losses ) in bb when you are talking about no-limit (or pot-limit) games, since there is no doubling of the bet on the turn (min. bet on turn and river remains the size of the big blind) as there is in limit games.

#5 20th April 2007, 10:12 AM

Great stuff!

Thanks for the replies - It seems that as with most things worth studying, the more you learn in Poker, the more you realise how little you know.

My spreadsheet of records covers only the basics, (date, duration of game, up/down, etc), but it seems clear that really the correct way is to get some decent software to do it for me, so that bb and sb success rates - and I'm sure tons more - can be measured.

Being a newbie (donk?) is seldom pleasant, but judging by this and other threads, this seems the type of forum to quickly bring one up to speed, so thanks again!

#6 20th April 2007, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shinedown.45

-534bb over 724 hands means that there was a loss of 534 big blinds in a course of 724 hands

Just to clarify - 534 lost blinds from 724 hands in which the OP was bb, presumably?

#7 20th April 2007, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BabyShoes

Just to clarify - 534 lost blinds from 724 hands in which the OP was bb, presumably?

no, "big blinds" only refers to the amount lost, it's got nothing to do with position here. it's 724 consecutive hands.

#8 20th April 2007, 12:09 PM

Ah! So basically the OP lost 534 hands out of 724 hands he played consecutively? Thanks for the clarity.

#9 20th April 2007, 12:53 PM

Am I being leveled here?

assume $1/$2 no limit holdem

big blind = $2

-534bb over 724 hands = "i lost $1068 in 724 hands"

#10 20th April 2007, 6:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BabyShoes

Ah! So basically the OP lost 534 hands out of 724 hands he played consecutively? Thanks for the clarity.

No. The number 534 simply refers an amount of money, as designated by the stakes you are playing (in this case the "big bet", or two times the big blind). It is not a number of hands, or a number of times you were actual in the blind.

Any yes, I lost just over 10x the table max buy in (although I was playing much lower than $100NL). This represented a net loss of approx. 18% of my cash game (not tournament) winnings since Jan. (I initially though it was closer to 25%).

#11 20th April 2007, 11:22 PM

Dorkus - Not sure what levelling is, but if it's 'taking the piss' which I imagine from your post , then no, my questioning is genuine. My apologies if the questions seem silly and perhaps obvious, but I'm in my third month of poker and I really do know nothing.

That said, thanks for the patience one and all - I'll try to maintain the same integrity once I have some knowledge under my belt.

PS I really do understand this time! LOL!

#12 20th April 2007, 11:30 PM

#13 21st April 2007, 4:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BabyShoes

Dorkus - Not sure what levelling is, but if it's 'taking the piss' which I imagine from your post , then no, my questioning is genuine. My apologies if the questions seem silly and perhaps obvious, but I'm in my third month of poker and I really do know nothing.

That said, thanks for the patience one and all - I'll try to maintain the same integrity once I have some knowledge under my belt.

PS I really do understand this time! LOL!

It's ok, I didn't exactly know what "leveled" meant either....

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