Originally Posted by
_Loki_
I keep an eye on the lobby while playing & look for wild loose tables (very high ave pfr% mainly) so that means I'm constantly changing one table from the three I'm currently playing every 10 minutes or so - that's why I don't have loads of players with 100's of hands on my DB. My average time on a table must be 15 or 20 minutes?
Staying on a table for an hour doesn't make sense to me unless it's very fishy.
I've just looked at my 1c/2c 6-max NLHE PokerStars DB for the past 3 months & the most HH I've got on a player is 420 & that's because I keep bumping into him since he plays ROCK on around 16 tables at once.
30 players in the 300's. 20 of whom are NIT/ROCK multi-tabler robots
180 players in the 200's.
450 players in the 100's.
The remaining 6,400 players on my DB (who I've played in the past 3 months) average around 20 - 30 hands
When I join a table I'm very very lucky indeed if I have stats on 2 players with greater than 100 hands
I'm wild guessing that there's around 12,000 PS players at 1c/2c who play once or twice a week & maybe 4,000 who play more often (Does anyone have firmer figures?). I suppose there might be another 20,000?? who play every other Saturday or something...
In summary: There are far too many players at 1c/2c for observed stats to be truly effective except for the top 2 or 3 stats. The deeper stats are irrelevant, but of course I will start to use them when I'm swimming in a smaller pool at the higher stakes.
Michael