How could it be possible for someone to have a lower earn rate in poker but make more money? Well looking at this in terms of a job will highlight the point clearly. If someone worked in a day job and made $20/hr while someone else only made $10/hr then the person who was making the $20/hr would be more likely to be making more money than the person making $10/hr……more likely but not guaranteed.
If the person who made $20/hr only worked for 20 hours per week then they make $400 by the end of the week. The other person was working 50 hours and so made $500 by the end of the week. So despite earning only 50% of the previous persons earn rate, they are making more money. They have compensated by increasing “working time” and “hours worked”. You can do this in poker by using simpler systems to increase “working time”.
This effectively means that you play more hands per hour at a reduced rate and the standard metric in poker is to look at ptbb/100 or its equivalent using Hold’em Manager. So a better player may make 5ptbb/100 while the other one only made 3ptbb/100. But if the player with the smaller earn rate was using a simple system that could be replicated over more tables then they are effectively increasing their working time by spending more time at the tables so to speak by increasing how many hands they see per hour.
