I dont understand the maths on this

[Rhound50]

I deposited some money onto stars. I have been at hom and have been playing some low limit PLO this same thing happens at like half the tables I play. I pick a table that shows has an average pot sSand I swear half of the tables I sit down at the PS lobby has the average pot sized around $10. I sit down and the next 30 hands dont have a single pot bigger than $10. I'm not math genesis but I'm pretty sure that algorithm PS uses to calculate average pot size is calculating some special version of "average."

I'm currently sitting at a .25/.50 table, the average pot size when I sat down was $28. I have played 27 hands and not a single pot over $5 and it now says the avg pot size is $27. Hmmmmmmm

[Spikey]

Easy. A bunny just lost all his money in one big pot. He left. You took his seat. Without the bunny everyone plays tight again. The average pot value (showing the average of the last 20 hands say) slowly goes down back to reality.

[Rhound50]

Easy. A bunny just lost all his money in one big pot. He left. You took his seat. Without the bunny everyone plays tight again. The average pot value (showing the average of the last 20 hands say) slowly goes down back to reality.

I understand how that can work but say I am playing .10/.25 PLO, the lobby says avg pot is $10. I sit and I play 25 hands where the avg pot size is $1. That one pot would have had to be $235 for the average to be $10. I'm pretty sure PS is using their own definition of average when making these calculations. Maybe they include only pots that see a flop or maybe they include uncalled bets or something like that because the numbers dont add up.

[fubaroz]

As Spikey said fairly succinctly, the catalyst for the big pots, some maniac busted out, thus everything goes back to normal, plus when there is an action table like that, the people that actively table search for sweet tables like sharks tracking a bleeding tuna. Those players tend to be nits. So , hypothetically, fish busts out, the players ON the table who knew where the money was coming from leave right after him, thus leaving you with a table full of mostly nits with a bunch of nits waiting to get on the table.

The other thing to bear in mind is those numbers are only a sampling from a limited amount of time, so a few big pots will throw the table stats out of whack.