Good post. I agree with you, but I will add that I think monitoring your win rate can be a useful tool. Not so much to compare yourself with other players, but to compare yourself with yourself.... to help you determine if you have any leaks in your game, and so on.
I realize it takes a lot of hands to reach the long run (10,000 hours seems a bit high though - thats 5 years of working full time), but I still think tracking your play can be very valueable, and should be something everyone should do - but not for the sake of comparing BBs/hour to other player who play different games under different circumstances.
Now, if you and I play the same limits on the same site and we each have 10 or 20,000 hands played there, I think it WOULD be useful for us to compare win rates. If you're winning 3.25 BBs per hour and I'm winning .25, yes, we're both winning players, but I'm willing to bet we play differently and you are a better player than I am. Not only that, but I think we should compare notes and figure out why you are more successful than me, so I can start winning more too. In other words, let's use this data to FIND the leaks in our games...
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10-20-04, 03:35 PM
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