Why is "Money Won" on here so important to people

[WILD]

money won means nothing to judge someone.

They could have $500 in winning or wahtever and played like 2,000 freerolls lol.

To really judge is ITM% and FT% imo.

The money won thing is really just to brag. Plus, it can be a proud accomplishment knowing that you won that money off of freerolls. And I do agree with you trueoc, the way to really judge if someone is a good player is to see percentages of final tables.

[WECpoker]

I replied here to see how little my measuring stick is compared to the others....

Do I become more accepted once I make the 'three-figure' club? (if I can)

[Tropwen]

Ya I use it more to judge me, more of a personal high score that I try and get higher but I can see people judging others because that's the only stat on a post so it's the first thing they see

[JohnnyDeepStacks]

What is money ??

[JohnnyDeepStacks]

IMO its always bad to compare yourself to others in the game of poker. As far as telling how good someone is. FT percentage and ITM % are good stats to look at to get a general idea how someone plays. Tournaments you need a ton of them to really tell how good someone is. But as far as comparing yourself to others. I don't think you should. Its bad for your game and could force you to play incorrectly to try and match up. Its just bad news to compare yourself in poker. If your focused on your own game and continually working on your own game. The numbers will come. If your going to look at others stats then do it for self improvement. Watch them play and see what they are doing. Some of them are just playing more volume in which case their numbers are going to be higher of course. But even when you can't play , by watching others you can learn something.

[ChuckFinnley]

It actually is important to me. I don't think it's a way to judge someone as a player, but it IS one way to judge how invested someone is in PO. I trust someone more that has a higher money won cause it proves they are an active member of the site and less likely to cut and run on a deal.

I don't agree with this... I would have to say number and quality of forum posts reflects this better

[Skidis]

I imagine it matters more to some than others. Particularly, people who want stakes.

+1

[Dominator3]

Why are people so stuck on this. Not everyone plays the freerolls... some of us earn points for vouchers... others earn points to trade other players for cash... people automatically think that because there is a 0 there that those players are not very good... you cant judge someone by one stat... especially on a site that has the option to buy sell and trade points instead of using them all for freerolls!!

I dont place too much emphasis on it personally because I use it for bovada 99% of the time and that does not even count for money won.

[Pray4Spades]

Doesn't mean anything to me since I don't play Carbon at all and that's where a majority of peoples money won come from, and I don't play many freerolls anyways.

[Swittie]

I look at it from time to time in the posts, but don't use it as any type of strategy. I would like to see ITM or FT percentages

haha..keep dreamin' ....