14 singles and a home run

Poker seems to lend itself particularly well to analogies with other sports. In a previous post, I compared a poker player investing too heavily (and wishfully) in a hand with a batter swinging for the fences in baseball. It's almost guaranteed that you'll lose a ton of chips in such a situation. Last Thursday night, I never swung for the fences; every hit was a single except for one. However, the exception actually was a home run, even though it wasn't caused by a mighty swing on my part. It was a gift given by an opponent who made a poor river bet; I'd hit a flush on the river and he made a big bluff at the pot. That was on hand 17, which turned out to be less than a third of the way through the session; I managed to preserve a good chunk of the profit from that one hand for the rest of the night.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 61 hands and saw flop:
- 13 out of 13 times while in big blind (100%)
- 12 out of 13 times while in small blind (92%)
- 30 out of 35 times in other positions (85%)
- a total of 55 out of 61 (90%)
Pots won at showdown - 11 of 17 (64%)
Pots won without showdown - 4

delta: $20,400
balance: $1,732,153