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How many hands to verify profitability or lack thereof?

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  1. Suicydal Suicydal is offline

    Washington, MI
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    Oct 3rd, 2007 (10/3/2007 11:32am)

    I have recently made a switch to playing PLO cash almost exclusively. I have been using pokertracker to track my results/analyze my play. Anyone have any thoughts on how many hands I would have to have played to have a reasonable estimate of my profitability? I honestly don't know this number for holdem, but would think it would be a bigger number for omaha due to the higher variance of the game.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks for the help!
  2. threeven threeven is offline

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    Oct 3rd, 2007 (10/3/2007 11:34am) in reply to Suicydal

    for holdem I would say:

    20k to know if you are a winner or not (I think you may need more, but usually 20k should let you know)

    100k to get some idea of winrate
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  3. NickStam NickStam is offline

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    Oct 3rd, 2007 (10/3/2007 2:12pm) in reply to threeven

    100k for a general idea

    300k to know true winrate?
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