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Message: [QUOTE="Stu_Ungar, post: 1234875, member: 39779"] ok BB = Big Bet bb = big blind 1 BB (Big Bet) = 2 bb (big blinds) .... (its a hangover from limit poker where the bet size changes to BB's on the turn) BB/100 = 2bb/100 (from above) BB/100 is the number of BB's you win per 100 hands you play (you need to play about 100K hands before this figure stabalizes) Why is it important? Well it shows that a) you make a profit b) gives you some indication of how well you play. Anything over 3BB/100 is good. Anything upto around 10BB/100 is amazing and achievable. Beond 10BB/100... some people claim they make more than 10. Put it like this. The top pros make around the 10 mark so if a guy with a few posts under his belt here claims he makes more than that.. take it with a pinch of salt. He may be telling the truth. He may be basing it on a small sample of hands. He may just have been really lucky for a few thousand hands. But realisticaly how many people are going to play significantly better than top pros? Now I dont mean if someone says he gets 11BB/100 you should instantly question his integrity, but if someone quotes 25BB/100.. well. BB/hour Its sort o the same thing as BB/100 but based on time rather than number of hands. You would aproximate around 50 hands per table per hour. BB/100 is more usefull as it's more precise and more commonly quoted. BB/hour would make more sense when considering live play as people wouldn't religiously count hands, but could easily log winnings and time. Incidently BB/100 is calculated AFTER rake is deducted. Rake is proportional to the size of the pot and capped at $3 usually. This means that microstakes players pay more in rake than high stakes players. So for a micro stakes player a figure of 8BB/100 in rake is fairly normal. Personaly I am winning at 6.5BB/100 at 10NL I am also paying around 8BB/100 in rake!!!... This is why rakeback is so important to cash game players. So, In short. 3BB/100 is good. As long as the figure is positive then you are winning. 10BB/100 is pro stuff. [/QUOTE]

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