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BB/Hand - Big Bets Won per Hand

What does this refer to? Does this mean you won an average of X Big Blind amounts per this hand dealt?
 
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No, a Big Bet is twice the big blind. It's taken from limit and it's kind of silly, but it's become the norm. More often you'll see BB/100 hands as a win-rate. If you're playing 50nl and win $5/100 hands, you win at 5 BB/100 hands since 2*big blind = 2*.50 = 1 and 5/1 = 5.
 
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Gotcha, thanks! So it has less relevence in NLHE?
 
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No most people use it in NLHE, it's just that it's derived from limit, since in a limit game with blinds of 1/2, $2 is the small bet (bet preflop and on the flop) and $4 is the Big Bet, twice the big blind (bet on the turn and river). The term comes from limit, but it's still used frequently in NLHE, sort of like the American system of measurement. Everyone realizes it's easier to use metric, but we've gotten used to the feet, inches, ounces, miles, etc. that we still use that.
 
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zachvac said:
No most people use it in NLHE, it's just that it's derived from limit, since in a limit game with blinds of 1/2, $2 is the small bet (bet preflop and on the flop) and $4 is the Big Bet, twice the big blind (bet on the turn and river). The term comes from limit, but it's still used frequently in NLHE, sort of like the American system of measurement. Everyone realizes it's easier to use metric, but we've gotten used to the feet, inches, ounces, miles, etc. that we still use that.
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Don't know if I'd say we've gotten used to it. I'm 31, lived here all my life and would still prefer the metric system :D

Heck, I'd rather someone make the second longer/shorter so we can have a 100 seconds in a minute 100 minutes in an hour 10 hours in a day 10 days in a week... but um... that will never happen. :p

I like things easy :)
 
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lol, no disagreement here. At least we got our money right, imagine if we were trying to make change when 18 pennies made a dime, but 13 dimes made a quarter and 2 quarters made a dollar
 
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zachvac said:
lol, no disagreement here. At least we got our money right, imagine if we were trying to make change when 18 pennies made a dime, but 13 dimes made a quarter and 2 quarters made a dollar
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HA! Never thought of that. I'm amazed it's not that way.
 
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