Do you have some statistics on the distribution of average percentage gain per hand among poker players, how it varies with practice, and how constant it is?
For instance, what are the average and standard deviation of (winnings / money bet) for professional poker players? What fraction of these professional poker players can be explained as just being lucky?
I would think that you would win at online poker not by training, but by getting a good computer program to lay your bets.
How much professional poker players make varies a lot according to their skill level. The best reliably make millions every year.
Setting up a bot to play for you is a winning strategy, but ethically questionable since it requires breaking the rules of the site. And a necessary non-trivial part of the strategy would be evading the detection they engage in.
Do you have some statistics on the distribution of average percentage gain per hand among poker players, how it varies with practice, and how constant it is?
For instance, what are the average and standard deviation of (winnings / money bet) for professional poker players? What fraction of these professional poker players can be explained as just being lucky?
I would think that you would win at online poker not by training, but by getting a good computer program to lay your bets.
For the most part, programming a bot is a lot harder than just learning how to play and playing yourself, no matter how good you are at programming.
How much professional poker players make varies a lot according to their skill level. The best reliably make millions every year.
Setting up a bot to play for you is a winning strategy, but ethically questionable since it requires breaking the rules of the site. And a necessary non-trivial part of the strategy would be evading the detection they engage in.