win / loss record
I realize your win/loss record isn't necessarily indicitive of your money won (or lost), but I'm curious what a winning player who tracks his results sees as a win/loss number.
When I tracked mine, I was seldom better than 60/40 and that was a winning year for me.
Are winning players' percentages along those lines or higher ?
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I realize your win/loss record isn't necessarily indicitive of your money won (or lost), but I'm curious what a winning player who tracks his results sees as a win/loss number.
When I tracked mine, I was seldom better than 60/40 and that was a winning year for me.
Are winning players' percentages along those lines or higher ?
What does 60/40 mean?
I typically see BB/Hour as the metric for live.
I realize your win/loss record isn't necessarily indicitive of your money won (or lost), but I'm curious what a winning player who tracks his results sees as a win/loss number.
When I tracked mine, I was seldom better than 60/40 and that was a winning year for me.
Are winning players' percentages along those lines or higher ?
Depends on the average session length. The longer your sessions are the bigger your win/loss record. So it's not a statistic that can make for easy comparisons between players. If you want to compare your win loss record, it's only meaningful if the players you compare it too have the same average session length and even then it may be tricky.
I lost my tracker in 2018 but since then my win % over 396 sessions is 47% and im a winning player.
It would be a math question, given your hourly EV and Standard deviation and length of session, what's the probability you end up above the starting point.
But there are other factors that enter into the W/L breakdown, like whether you quit early if ahead by any amount
Better to just look at overall results as a gauge, but the session stats can flag problems like whether you are playing too long or not long enough
I'm at 542 wins / 276 losses / 3 breakevens over 821 sessions in my 1/3 NL game, so 66% vs 34% (@ 7.04 bb/hr).
My guess is that it is a fairly useless metric.
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60/40 is very good. My lifetime is even lower than that, even though I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in wins during that period.
Win/loss ratio is going to be deceptive. Take, for example, the case of someone playing a Martingale-like strategy of, when they are down, playing until they either get ahead or they no longer have money in their pocket/in their box at the cage. This player will have a reasonable fraction of solid wins, a large number of small wins, and a small number of catastrophic losses.
Their win/loss ratio is huge; their hourly rate, not so much.
I mean its not even martingale. You OUGHT to stay longer at soft tables and leave earlier at tough tables. You OUGHT to stay if you have a huge stack and position on someone else with a huge stack. You OUGHT to leave if you are down and have problems with tilt.
There are a variety of factors that affect how long you play, and most of them should lead you towards having fewer and very big winning sessions and more but smaller losing sessions
