by kraada » Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:39 pm
Let me give an example, maybe that will make it clearer.
You're playing 9 handed, 5 of the people you've never seen before. Obviously their stats on the table start at 0. If 1 person you've played 100 hands with, his stats start at hand 101 and the previous 100 hands are included. This is because most people don't change their play drastically across different times when you meet them and the prior data will likely be useful. If you only had data from this table it'd be hard to get reliable statistics on things like 3-betting percentages or c-bet percentages. Two of the remaining people you have 1000 hands + on. Their stats start from wherever they left off also.
Your stats though start fresh for this session. Because you don't know whether they use PT or not, you don't know if they have more data on you or not, but you do know for sure they've seen you do everything you've done on this table. So if you're running at 40/35 over the first 50 hands b/c you've been getting great cards, they might think you're crazy and knowing that should be useful for you.
Does that help?