Progress over 11,000 hands.

I think it's more likely to be around 3-5 though, as I've been running pretty good today with coin flips and had a few lucky flops too.

ptbb/100 is standard for winrate discussion

10ptbb/100 is basically unheard of over any sort of realistic sample, around 5 means you're crushing

at microstakes (NL2 or NL5), no problem to have 15bb/100. at NL10, you can clearly have 10bb/100.
So it depends a lot on the limit, but what's important is that with your winrate you can still improve at your limit.

Thanks for the replies, hopefully I can get my winrate up to 5ptbb/100 by the time I get enough of a bankroll to move up stakes.

What's the sort of general consensus around the number of hands required for a good sample size?

100k hands.

Not really joking even.

just keep improving your game, and keep working through hands after session and get your winrate as high as possible.
have you seen the phil galfond articles?
http://www.bluffmagazine.com/magazine/writers/phil-galfond-215.html
the Gbucks one especially.
Go Focused.

On November 15 2011 22:49 Silver_nz wrote: 100k hands. Not really joking even. just keep improving your game, and keep working through hands after session and get your winrate as high as possible. have you seen the phil galfond articles? http://www.bluffmagazine.com/magazine/writers/phil-galfond-215.html the Gbucks one especially. Go Focused.

That's all good, 100k hands over 4tables at a time should be a good indicator.
I remember once doing 12tables at once for fun and after 4hours having basically no change in my balance lol, so hand quality might be important for my sample 2, and 4 tables works well for me.