How many hands of poker?

[Jonathank]

how many hands of poker do you suppose you have played in your lifetime?

1 million hands is only 1000 hands 200 days of the year for 5 yrs. so i am guessing i have played well over 2 million hands, but i don't have poker tracker so i'm not sure.

[gamer4life27]

I'm sure I'm over 10m hands. I have played for years now (lost track) and I tend to multi table when I'm online. I can play like 150 hands/hour for like 10 hours. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm over the 10m mark.

[Vito_Nuccio]

Not sure, like gamer I lost count long ago. I hope to reach a google hands before I am done.......


Later

[frob23]

How many hands of poker? I have no idea. If I was to estimate it based purely on the number of times I've had a royal flush (assuming mostly 7 cards games and that I play 20% of the hands I am dealt)... it would be around 2 million hands. Of course, that metric fails when considering I play a LOT of lowball games (where I wouldn't have been trying for a royal) and so on. It also fails because using such a rare event to measure this can easily introduce a huge margin of error (let's say as much as a 10 fold margin here) just based on one or two incidences of more or less royal flushes than statistics suggest you should get.

I easily estimate that, on the low side, I played 100k hands before I was 15. That would make about 200k hands (at that rate) before I knew about Hold'em. But these numbers seem very low. Almost all of those would be stud and draw hands.

To be honest... I have no real idea how many hands I have played in my life. I would say, 400k - 2,500k would be a reasonable estimate. I occasionally multitable but not too often and that is easily made up for the fact that I play a lot of live poker with friends... so 2 million seems pretty high... 400k seems pretty low... somewhere in there.