When it became possible to put the icons of the hands played, I had access to
, that is, more than a million played hands. And just a couple of days later, the
badge became available - over 2.5 million played hands!
Which icon is available to you?
I hit 250K (88) hands about a year ago. Keep wondering when it is going to tick over to 500K. Such a big jump from Level 88 to 99.
What is funniest about my stats though is that I have one opponent (and friend) I've played about 20K hands against. (Beat him heads up last Friday night for 20.00 GBP!)
I noticed someone said that there isn't necessariuly a relationship between hands played and skill level.
Whilst they might not [perfectly aligned with skill, I'd say that there is probably a pretty strong tendency for higher volume, real-money players to play better poker.
Certainly from a statistics perspective, USUALLY BUT NOT ALWAYS, players with TT or higher in their hand counts play more positionally tight play (ie more folds from ealy positions) and tend to play more exploitatively (e.g. overbetting flops with small top pair on a dry board against a call station).
players with larger numbers of hands are far more likely to run the clock more, removing the timing tell from play.
Experienced players are much more likely to three-bet (and arguably less likely to four bet).
overall, I tend to value these badges...and I suppose I should be careful to do that, given thaqt they can be disaplyed at any value up to and including the badge you've earned....
If I'm feeling cheeky, I might start the table out with 22 and periodically increase it, just to se4e if anyone notices,...
Cheers,
JT