whats a good hand sample size for cash games?

miju

am nearly ashamed to post this graph as it shows one ginormous swing from just a $50 deposit in heads up SnGs (guess who ignored basic bankroll management and went chasing their losses ) though I have worked it back up to a decent profit again.

question is simple what is a decent hand sample size to show your winning / losing player of the long term the graph below is over 10k hands and thats prob no where near a decent sample I'd suspect.

now I wanna migrate to cash and wanna know what a decent sample size would be

tipp86

No 10 k is nothing although its probably enough to spot leaks in your game.

I remember someone here writing that they beat 100nl by 20bbs ove 100k hands then just broke even for the next 100 k hands. That says it all really.

pok3rplaya

wtf you were up $42k at one point?

RoadSweeper

wow, you're a true degen. WP

mdwexford

miju

pok3rplaya wrote: »

wtf you were up $42k at one point?

yes literally playing heads up SnG's so each game I won I doubled my BR which was great while I was SUPER hot and literally could not lose. Not so great when I got raped when I got cocky and tilted like **** and chasing my losses and didnt drop back down levels and lost 40 $1000 SnG heads up in a row :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Felt sick at the time when I went under but learned ALOT (cant stress alot enough ) from it.

Ace2007

how many did you win to get to 42k in the first place - less than 100 games? wow

thedini

miju wrote: »

yes literally playing heads up SnG's so each game I won I doubled my BR which was great while I was SUPER hot and literally could not lose. Not so great when I got raped when I got cocky and tilted like **** and chasing my losses and didnt drop back down levels and lost 40 $1000 SnG heads up in a row :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Felt sick at the time when I went under but learned ALOT (cant stress alot enough ) from it.

good rakeback though

Hank Scorpio

graph is reminisence of broke back mountain

Chucky the tree

ugh seriously, you can't edit the graph out with all the replies about it still here. It's torture.

miju

Chucky the tree wrote: »

ugh seriously, you can't edit the graph out with all the replies about it still here. It's torture.

I knew I shouldnt have posted it in the first place :mad: Just imagine a sheer faced cliff and you have it.

Tar.Aldarion

dude, show us the graph, ul, but you have a cool graph to show for it.

miju

no sorry I'm not putting it back up it's plain embarassing TBH

RoadSweeper

OP, There isnt much need for embarrassment. You basically didnt exercise bankroll management and ran **** hot to build up 42k. Its happened before and it will happen again. Countless people here have done the same. Maybe not to such a degree, but they prob didnt run as hot as you to start.

The only thing you did wrong was not quit or withdraw before you lost it.

Chalk it up to experience and use it to make sure you use bank roll management in the future.

Also, 10k isnt a large sample.

rag2gar

What is a reasonable/large sample for cash game analysis roadsweeper? 50k hands?

Ace2007

is 10K not a large sample for sit n goes?

pok3rplaya

@ rag

for winrate analysis? 500k maybe, I'd rather a mil

The Tourist

Sample size also depends on your winrate.
Your winrate will have a confidence interval around it.
Eg "I am 95% certain that my winrate is X BB +/- YBB".
As your sample size increases the size of Y decreases and we can have more confidence about our winrate.