Rush DB analysis continued from a week or two ago.  People are always asking what a "good win rate is."  I would just prefer to define a "decent" win rate.

The Rush win rate for the top 100 and 200 high volume 2/4 Rush players are 1.45 and 1.43 bb/100 (not ptbb) respectively over 620K and 900K hands respectively (and it gets worse from there).  Apparently, adding more people in the average only causes more losing players to be added in.  I have 13,848 players in my 2/4 Rush DB fwiw.  So for those of you wondering what the benchmark for a "decent" reg is, I would probably go with that.  Picking the top 100 or 200 is a pretty arbitrary, but that number seems about right.  Obviously, just because you put in volume doesn't mean you're a great player, but among people who put in volume regularly ("regs"), those are the (weighted) average win rates.  And my definition of "decent" = "average."

A second question that people always ask is, whether Rush is easier than the regular games.

The non-Rush win rate for the top 100 and 200 high volume 2/4 non-Rush players are 1.19 and 1.31 bb/100 respectively (and it gets worse from there). I've actually played 3x more rush hands than non-rush hands the last 4 months, so the non-rush data is a little less robust. But still, the win rates are pretty tight.  Comparing Rush's 1.44ish win rate to non-Rush's 1.25ish win rate is not really statistically significant IMO.  If you consider that you see less flops in Rush (and therefore less rakeback), I don't know if you can choose one game over another solely based on "ease of the game."

Lastly, after my last post on the top 10 volume Rush players being nits, people may be under the impression that Rush is uber nitty.  But not really...  My top 10 in volume were uber-nitty.  But for the top 200 Rush volume grinders, I have the weighted average stats as 14.4/10.7/4.3 versus 16.6/11.7/4.4 for non-Rush.  One thing you need to consider tho is that Rush always plays 9-handed.  Most regular full ring tables generally play 8 handed (because people are sitting out, player changes, etc).  For 9 handed non-Rush games, I have the top 200 stats as 14.5/10.8/4.4.  So Rush stats are basically identical to non-Rush, and not nearly as tight as the top ten would lead you to believe.

When you look at your own Rush vs non-Rush stats, don't forget to adjust for 8 vs 9-handedness.  Perhaps at the end of the year, I'll look at the weighted average stats again, and also compare stats for Stars (as I should have enough hands by then).  It should be interesting to see how the games have changed, and also to compare the games on the two major sites.