now you know

few things in life can really be measured.

that's probably a good thing. for chances are, there would be a lot of damaged egos if the truth came out. everyone secretly thinks they're a top dog. and the ones that don't you never see anyways. they're depressed, holed up in their parent's basement with the light switch down.

but there are exceptions. one of the world's leading researchers in video game culture once told me world of warcraft -- just look at the level of your character -- and a big reason why people loved the game so much. poker's another.

using a piece of software called poker tracker you can record nearly fifty thousand hands a day. it's remarkable, really. run a few simple arithmetic calculations and there you have it, the wheat separated from the chaff -- and which one you are.

so here it is, my rank after almost 200,000 (35,000 of which i played) hands of $200 buyin no limit.

all players: 2295 out of 6927, 66th percentile
players with at least 100 hands: 621 out of 1854, 66th percentile
players with at least 500 hands: 121 out of 395, 69th percentile
players with at least 1000 hands: 58 out of 186, 68th percentile
players with at least 2000 hands: 14 out of 58, 76th percentile

since i'm a statistics retard, i don't know which is the most meaningful sample. but the results look pretty conclusive to me.

apparently, i'm signficantly better than average, but well within one standard deviation of the mean. if this were an iq test, an equivalent score would be about 110.

ouch.