@gamergirI yeah this is 100% accurate, but to make it easier lets say all >6 is fish
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Your post is making me dream! Now, although I’m confined in my smokey room in front of a screen, I imagine myself happily swimming in the crystal clear Caribbean water, snorkeling and spotting all its wonderful fish species! 
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have a table where you put up % of bankroll, and all bets are % of bankroll.
Then we see who the real sharks and fish are …
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“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” - Karl Marx
I don’t think that has ever actually worked Sarah!
I actually agree in terms of who the “good” poker players are on Replay. But being a “fish” has a negative connotation, and it’s all relative to the situation.
A player who doesn’t know the rules is a fish to a player who knows the rules but no strategy.
A player who knows no strategy is a fish to a player who is experienced.
A player with experience but no study/math is a fish to a player who understands strategy.
I am a shark when I play against my friends, at 5k/10k ring on Replay, or maybe at the $1/2 game at my local casino, but I am a huge fish at live $25/50 or against the top 6 players on Replay.
I don’t think the term fish should necessarily be insulting/offensive, but it depends on how it is used.
Edit: In terms of the % bankroll idea, these top players got their bankrolls into the billions by destroying the competition. It’s not like it just appeared out of nowhere (and it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy). So, while they may be more comfortable risking a few million chips here or there, they went through the same stages as everybody else and managed to keep rapidly winning large quantities of chips, which says something about their skill/strategy (at least by Replay standards).
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Rank should not be based on stack at all when anyone can buy a big stack.
If a person that is a great player loses their stack to a newby that got lucky does that mean they are no longer a great player?
Stacks and rank mean nothing in free chip games with no real risk and you have new players join Replay and will be low rank but may be very experienced players that came over from pokerstars or one of the real money websites to test their strategy here.
The only thing a big stack and high rank means is you have probably been on Replay too long and you should go test your skills against other players otherwise you are just shuffling chips between a few of the same players and that is not challenging or improving your game IMO.
OK, who wants to play?
Yes, at most levels rank does not mean anything because $125 buys you a rank of ~3500, but it’s important to think about what assumptions we can make about player skill based on rank, and at a certain point it is a pretty good, but not great, predictor of skill. Getting tens of millions or billions of chips usually reflects winning rather than buying because even players who buy millions of chips tend to lose them fast if they are bad.
From 10,000 and up rank means literally nothing because 1 win or loss can change it drastically
From 5,000-10,000 it still means almost nothing but it shows that someone may be committed to playing on Replay
From 2,000-5,000 it shows that someone is probably trying to play and win, but it still does not tell us much
From 500-2,000 it shows that they are probably a winning a player, and/or that they are new and moving up
From 300-500 They are probably a solid winner on Replay, but it doesn’t tell us much about how they play
From 100-300 They are consistently winning at high stakes, still doesn’t tell us about their skill/play style
30-100 They have a high ring win rate, but that doesn’t make them a “good” poker player by real-money standards
8-30 They beat most people on Replay
1-8 They crush everyone on Replay except the other top players
But like I said, exclusively tournament players, new players, and players who have gone on tilt and lost all their chips will have lower ranks, which makes rank a bad predictor of skill. There are players in the top 50 who are truly awful and players with lower ranks who may be good but just haven’t spent the time accumulating chips.
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This thread is becoming more and more a yummy case of fish n chips! 
Now seriously, I wonder if someone has really succeeded in ranking among the first 200 players within two weeks, starting with 2,500 chips. If so, chapeau!
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I should’ve called it Fish & Chips instead 
I went from 35K to 28K in two weeks so at that rate I will be number 1 in 8 weeks.
Whoo Hoo!
i agree with most of what everyone said however it is nearly impossible if not impossible to get to a 200k rank or over 100 million chips in 2 weeks from 2500 freebies. it takes a shark to get to 1 million in 2 weeks, now u have to get from 1 mill to over 100 mill after that. if this happened i hope they enjoyed their royal flush they got every hand every game playing 24/7 for 14 days straight, getting to 1 mill from 2500 freebies is the hardest then 1 to 10 mill, after that its possible if u play high and elite stakes and are on a 14 day winning streak, so if that happened then they must have bought 10 mill chips at least, but from 2500 freebies your chances of hitting the lottery are greater., just saying cause i started out with the 2500 several times and knew what it took just to get to 1 mill and get into high stake tables to get to 10 mill, now its even longer trying to get to get to 200 now. your odds of busting out a few times and starting over are high too, so think about the extra time factor to start over in the 1st 2 weeks.
For those who value rank, don’t forget to submit a hand in the new 'Hand of the Month" contest.
If you win Replay will add 50,000 cyber-chips to your bankroll.
And some people will think you are a better poker player than you were the day before.
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If any new players want to see what you are up against to get that “top” rank here is the board and it is in your toplists link: https://www.replaypoker.com/toplists
I think I will focus on improving my game, making some new friends and having fun!
this is bad excuse! you must be biggest fish!
Fish is good! I love to play fish the most!
I played 50% bankroll to beat these fish cause they are so bad I never lose!
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Player who buy chip lose it all in one day!
If great player lose all their chip to newby they are not great player!
Any experience player from pokerstar will make rank 200 in 2 week!
7 and 8 are fish!
It is easy! all good player can do it!
Hey gamergirl, i was wondering how many chips u bought to start out on replay ? and if i give u the 2500 chips can u show all us fish how u get to around 130 million or 200 rank in 2 weeks or less by having to start out on low stake rings or low tourneys with 2500 chips to get there ? if u get to 130 mill with those 2500 chips then i will give u my whole bank i worked so hard for. we would all benefit from it, it costs u nothing to start and u will make a lot of chips getting to 200 rank in 2 weeks or less, and all of us fish can watch u now and then along the way and see how its done. Would u be willing to back up your point u made by doing this?
Even a shark is just a big fish.
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