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Message: [QUOTE="feitr, post: 924089, member: 34106"] 10k hands won't give you anything like your true winrate, but it is a start at least. Over my last 1 1/2 months, i ran at >10BB/100 for my first 20k hands, and for the next 30k hands i ran at almost 20 buy ins below EV and just broke even during that stretch. Over my last 2 weeks i've had 10k hands where i am up ~$1100 even tho i still ran at over $600 below all in EV during that period. Long drawn out point being that you probably need in the region of 100k hands to have somewhat of a true approximation of your win rate, because you can see sick differences over stretches as "long" as 30k hands etc. But, unless you run really bad/good during a 15k stretch you probably should know whether or not you are a winning player at least. I don't see why things like whether you have living expenses matter at all in this situation to whoever said that. I'm presuming that $300 probably isn't that big of a deal to philthy in the big picture, so whatever. For me at least, i keep poker money and real money COMPLETELY separate, except when i withdraw money out of my account into my main bank account and then it becomes real money and no longer able to be used for poker. So in that sense, if i lose $120 in a hand i don't start thinking "crap just lost a textbook" or stupid crap like that. I think the only problem becomes when somebody is playing poker stakes that are completely disproportionate to their living situation (struggle to make rent, but play nl1k or something) and obviously that isn't the case here. On another note, get the free trial of pokertracker or HEM (use both one after another...gives you 2 1/2 months). You ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE THESE for cash games, so this gives you 2 1/2 months whereby you can get your bankroll at a stage that you can afford the $80 to buy them when the trials run out. I'd advise you to play 2nl for a week or so just so you can get into the hang of cash play (playing deeper stacked and whatnot). Then unless you have lost money during this period, move up to 5nl and give it a go. Once you have ~10k hands, post your pokertracker/HEM stats and somebody will be able to point out big leaks if you have any (stats approximate after a much smaller sample than does BB/100). [RIGHT][IMG]https://www.cardschat.com/images_fb/misc/progress.gif[/IMG][/RIGHT] [/QUOTE]

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