Mase31683
Legend
Silver Level
To know your "True Winrate" really takes a lot of time.
Take your BB/100
Confidence Level
Standard Deviation BB/100
Number of hands
With these you can find you "True Winrate Range" which is a normal distribution
Confidence Level just means how sure you can be that your true winrate is in the given distribution.
As an example, the person I saw describing this had:
Winrate: 6.5 BB/100
Confidence Level: 95%
Standard Deviation: 75 (You can find this in tracking software, he's HU so Std D is bigger)
# hands: 150,000
This gave the following numbers:
True Winrate range: 3.79 BB/100
Low Winrate 2.70
Hi Winrate 10.29
So there's a 95% chance that he wins anywhere from 2.7 to 10.3 BB/100. That's still fairly wide and this is after 150,000 hands!
Now let's take a look at how the number of hands played affects these numbers.
Adjusting # hands to 10,000 yields a true winrate range of 14.7, which is basically saying, there's no idea in this how well you're playing. You are just as likely to have a true winrate of -6.7BB/100 as +22.7BB/100 at this point.
Don't worry so much about what your BB/100 is. Just focus on playing well, and making good decisions, because variance is going to be there for quite some time.
Take your BB/100
Confidence Level
Standard Deviation BB/100
Number of hands
With these you can find you "True Winrate Range" which is a normal distribution
Confidence Level just means how sure you can be that your true winrate is in the given distribution.
As an example, the person I saw describing this had:
Winrate: 6.5 BB/100
Confidence Level: 95%
Standard Deviation: 75 (You can find this in tracking software, he's HU so Std D is bigger)
# hands: 150,000
This gave the following numbers:
True Winrate range: 3.79 BB/100
Low Winrate 2.70
Hi Winrate 10.29
So there's a 95% chance that he wins anywhere from 2.7 to 10.3 BB/100. That's still fairly wide and this is after 150,000 hands!
Now let's take a look at how the number of hands played affects these numbers.
Adjusting # hands to 10,000 yields a true winrate range of 14.7, which is basically saying, there's no idea in this how well you're playing. You are just as likely to have a true winrate of -6.7BB/100 as +22.7BB/100 at this point.
Don't worry so much about what your BB/100 is. Just focus on playing well, and making good decisions, because variance is going to be there for quite some time.
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Infamous1020
Visionary
Platinum Level
I had 4.5 PTBB/100 at NL100 (~25K hands). Only 3 PTBB/100 at NL200.But I'm a FL player. I play NL only ocassionally. A good NL player can have more than 5 PTBB/100 at NL100 for sure. However anything above 0 is good.
yeah way easier to have a higher winrate in nl
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tmac123
Rising Star
Bronze Level
BelgoSuisse answered the question
Yeah, I think BelgoSuisse hit it right on when he said playing multiple tables effects your bb/100 because of the simple fact your not playing to your fullest potential having so many games going at once. I'm wondering why I never thought of that... should have know. It makes perfect sense I guess I was just looking past the obvious and looking for something deeper, some calculation varience or something.
Thanks again
Yeah, I think BelgoSuisse hit it right on when he said playing multiple tables effects your bb/100 because of the simple fact your not playing to your fullest potential having so many games going at once. I'm wondering why I never thought of that... should have know. It makes perfect sense I guess I was just looking past the obvious and looking for something deeper, some calculation varience or something.
Thanks again