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Message: [QUOTE="SolaRoe, post: 1970028, member: 91836"] You need to have a larger hand sample to get a clearer idea of how good you are at that level. Poker is very swingy, and players go through hot and cold streaks, so you could be going through a hot streak. With a beginner player, which is what you seem to be, an initial hot streak happens more often than not. Here is something you can do to get some vague idea of whether you're running hot or not: 1) download and install Poker Tracker 4 (you can just select the free trial). 2) import all of your hands played into the software, as per its instructions. 3) go to the Reports tab and select the values "Ev all in expected" and "Amount won," then run the report. Have a look at the summaries in bold print at the bottom. The Ev all in expected shows roughly how much you can expect to have won just given your hand strength against opponent hand strengths if all things were equal. It's a flawed metric and highly controversial, but it has its rough uses for this purpose. The Amount won shows you your actual profit. Compare the two numbers. If your amount won is $100 but your expected amount won is -$200 (that is, losses of $200), then you're running hot and can expect to go on a losing streak at some point. If, on the other hand, your amount won is $100 and your expected amount won is $300, then you're actually running cold and would be crushing the crap out of your limit were it not for the cold streak. The third alternative is that your amount won is $95 and your expected amount won is $102, or vice-versa, in which case you're pretty much at the statistical average. This kind of thing can help you get a better idea of what kind of results you can expect given the way you play right now and the opponents you face over a proper sample such as 100,000 hands. [/QUOTE]

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