performance update

a bit of time has passed and my little sony vaio has been chugging away over the past couple of weeks datamining hands from full tilt. since my first update, the number of hands in my db has more than tripled and now numbers more than three-quarters of a million hands.

from an absolute standpoint, i haven't had a lot of luck recently and my actual win rate per hand has dropped more than 10%. but with this more statistically relevant sample of data, let's see how i fare relatively to my competition.

> 100 hands played: 1814 0f 5377, 66th percentile
> 1000 hands played: 263 of 736, 64th percentile
> 2500 hands played: 80 of 266, 70th percentile
> 5000 hands played: 29 of 114, 74th percentile
> 10,000 hands played: 8 of 30, 73rd percentile

what i find interesting about these numbers is that my relative rank rises as the minimum-hand requirement increases even though the percentage of winning players in the group grows as well -- at 100 hands played 59% of the players are losers; at 10,000 hands played 83% are winners.