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I keep meaning to post my numbers for 2009; the graphics are saved. It's just the damned tables that take so long to put together.
For those interested in other people's results, Andy has put up a comment at http://www.secretsoftheamateurs.blogspot.com/
as has Clarkatroid at
http://www.clarkatroid.com/
One covers tournaments, the other, cash.
Compared with both these players' figures, my own returns will look decidedly modest; but compared with many other players' figures, they will look extremely good. Ignoring all of the losers (i.e., about 90% of the player base) it would be interesting to see how the "winning 10%" spread out in terms of actual winnings and in rate per hour. Andy and Clarkatroid would, it's my guess, be in the top 1%, but I might be way out. Perhaps there are huge numbers of $250k winners out there.
Maybe the best way is to look at the player base. Pokerstars probably has a big six-figure player base. Would there be about 5m online cash poker players worldwide? That would give 500k "winners". The difficult thing now is to work out how in the curve the winnings are distributed. Something like 450k winners of up to $1,000, or 450k winners of up to $10,000? I just don't know.
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For those interested in other people's results, Andy has put up a comment at http://www.secretsoftheamateurs.blogspot.com/
as has Clarkatroid at
http://www.clarkatroid.com/
One covers tournaments, the other, cash.
Compared with both these players' figures, my own returns will look decidedly modest; but compared with many other players' figures, they will look extremely good. Ignoring all of the losers (i.e., about 90% of the player base) it would be interesting to see how the "winning 10%" spread out in terms of actual winnings and in rate per hour. Andy and Clarkatroid would, it's my guess, be in the top 1%, but I might be way out. Perhaps there are huge numbers of $250k winners out there.
Maybe the best way is to look at the player base. Pokerstars probably has a big six-figure player base. Would there be about 5m online cash poker players worldwide? That would give 500k "winners". The difficult thing now is to work out how in the curve the winnings are distributed. Something like 450k winners of up to $1,000, or 450k winners of up to $10,000? I just don't know.
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