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What? The pros chosen were definitely highly skilled players. They're fairly well known in the online poker community.

Furthermore, Chris Ferguson, scumbag aside, is absolutely still a very good player by today's standards, and one way higher than the mean participant in a research experiment.

10,000 hands is an effective enough sample at a certain win rate and analysis of variance of play; the n-value alone is not enough to tell you if it was enough hands.