Understanding Your Winrate in Poker
December 30th, 2010 | Published in Poker Tips
A player’s winrate in poker is always a very interesting topic. Simply put, this is the player’s winning ability over a set period of time. It can be expressed a number of ways. One is bb/100 or blind bets per one hundred hands. 
This winrate is the most commonly used in no limit Hold’em. Another way to compute a player’s winrate is bb/hour or blind bets per hour. While this is used in some forums, it’s not as common as bb/100.
You can also get your winrate by computing your $/100 or the amount of money your win per one hundred hands. Other players get their winrate by computing the amount of money they manage to win per hour or $/hour. Winrates aren’t very accurate, though, unless you have a million hands to go by. When you’re only basing your reading on 10,000 hands, you can be sure that your winrate will either fall or rise. Variance changes things all the time.
If you’re wondering what winrate is good enough, anything above 0 is impressive. Most poker winners play the game and lose money. Very few of these winners even win a dollar for every 100 hands they play, so be thankful, even if your winrate is only 1/100.