well, here goes my jumping on the "operation" bandwagon. thanks to mike and lhoney for getting me off of my unfocused ass!

i've been trying to figure out what a solid, sustainable winning rate is for no limit holdem. tyson doesn't use poker tracker, so he's no good informationally, and this is actually a bit of a heated topic on 2+2.

the consensus seems to be that 10BB(big bets)/100 hands is very solid. the touchy part is that poker tracker's "big bets" for no limit are 2xbig blind, so there's always some question in how people report their results --->in BB(big blind) versus BB(big bet).

so, i was thinking about a quest to try to determine a solid winning rate for no limit, especially with multi-tabling. since 10/7/04, i've been two tabling the party $25 NL game, and the poker stars .10/.25 game (not together - one site or the other).

i will be taking my stats from poker tracker and reporting in BB (big bets = 2 x big blind)/100 hands.

questions to be answered:

- what constitutes a good enough sample (# of hands) - i can hit up a statistician friend for some help with this
- what is a sustainable BB/100 earning rate?
- what kind of standard deviation can be expected ?

and Operation Lamprey was born...

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