Glossary Draft

[Invigilator]

I am not familiar with this one, even though I use pt.

[Talking Poker]

It has to do with the way PT (used to?) calculate BB/100. I want to say it used to count this as BB = BIG BET (which is double BB = Big Blind), so people started using ptBB to differentiate.

I know melioris was solid on this and how it worked.

[Invigilator]

TP, I am going to work on the formatting and spacing and such over the next 2 days. What format do you want the final copy in?

[Talking Poker]

Whatever you think will look best posted in the forum....?

KYS - Kill Yourself
KMS - Kill Myself
WA/WB - Way Ahead/Way Behind

[Invigilator]

WA/WB are added. I have never encountered KYS or KMS on this forum. Are they common enough to include? I wanted to be careful about putting too much in the general online terms, so I have been trying to limit to ones I encoutner on this forum.

[melioris]

thanks for the reminder INV, I saw TPs post and meant to respond but then forgot. And I had to laugh as his lazy ass knows this as well as I do but for some reason he just passed the buck (taking the same amount of time as he would have just to answer the question). ok, so the difference between BB/100 and ptBB/100 is pretty simple.

BB/100 is big blinnds per 100 hands
ptbb/100 is big bets per 100 hands or 2 times the big blind per 100 hands.

PT was designed by limit players and therefore when they calculated the bb/100 number, they used big bets (the turn and river bets in a limit game). I think it is corrected in PT3 and HM to be big blinds/100 but it doesn't really matter. bb/100 is a live game measure IMO and for online I prefer $/hour or buyins/hr as a more informative measure of winrate as it then corrects for multitabling.

[Talking Poker]

I THOUGHT I knew that, but I wasn't sure. Passing the buck from my lazy ass to yours was the best solution.