What is BB/100?

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alvinpe

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I was checking my stats on HEM and see this unfamiliar acro. Can someone explain what is bb/100?

And is 14.74/100 good?
 
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BB/100 refers to the number of Big Blinds won per 100 hands.
So, if you are playing 2NL, you would earn two cents for every 100 hands proft. Your number of 14.74/100 is very good, but you have to consider the sample size that it is calculated on. If it is over 200 hands, its OK, but if that is over 3000 hands, then it is very good.
 
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While some programs track big blinds/100 (bb/100) I think HEM uses big bets/100 (BB/100) like poker tracker. If so, those are twice the big blind.
 
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arahel_jazz said:
BB/100 refers to the number of Big Blinds won per 100 hands.
So, if you are playing 2NL, you would earn two cents for every 100 hands proft. Your number of 14.74/100 is very good, but you have to consider the sample size that it is calculated on. If it is over 200 hands, its OK, but if that is over 3000 hands, then it is very good.
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close but a BB/100 at 2nl would be 4 cents for every 100 hands, a bb/100 would be 2. Also 3000 hands is so rediculously far from being a good sample size, 30k is a decent size to judge from
 
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switch0723 said:
close but a BB/100 at 2nl would be 4 cents for every 100 hands, a bb/100 would be 2. Also 3000 hands is so rediculously far from being a good sample size, 30k is a decent size to judge from
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Geez... that's like (networking geek alert here) the difference between KB and KiB. Kilo is the prefix for 1000, Kibi is the prefix for 1024. All those hard drives that you used to see in Kilo-bytes, were actually off by 2.4% from the real number.

Thanks for clearing that up.
 
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I have about 10k hands for 14.74/bb. I dont really good at this calculation. Ty for the information guys.
 
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alvinpe said:
I have about 10k hands for 14.74/bb. I dont really good at this calculation. Ty for the information guys.
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Id say 10k would put you in the ballpark toward estimating your overall bb/100 though as switch said 30k would be better. In fact, 100k would be best lol. That kind of a sample really nails it down.
 
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The standard of BB/100 instead of bb/100 comes from PokerTracker being initially designed for fixed-limit hold'em. In limit games, you're more interested in the number of big bets (twice the big blinds) than you are the number of big blinds you're making per 100 hands.
 
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