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I keep the badges off at the tables mostly, why give anyone any free information.
The number of hands played does not indicate skill.
The experience can be both successful and unsuccessful. The player can lose for 10 years.But it does indicate 'experience'.
While recently playing at Stars, I've had players on my tables who I have notes on from 2011 and who I haven't been on a table with since 2011, lol.... and on some of them it showed they'd played over 1million hands back then (looked them up via a site called 'PokerTableRatings'). Typically they're better than many.
Where do you go to get the hands icon?
I reached the hand of 88, which means 250,000 hands of real money, and I will continue until I reach the hand of AA