Monday, August 1, 2011

Another magic poker number

I've mentioned before that I invariably join a table which already has six active players, making it a table of seven. If luck and skill is evenly distributed, each player at such a table can expect to win once every seven hands, or 14% of the time. In practice, neither luck nor skill is evenly distributed. I've discovered that a good goal to shoot for is 50% above the average, or 21%. A player with more skill than most of the other players at the table can reasonably expect to achieve this.

Last Friday night, I hit this magic number in a short but sweet session. On the penultimate hand of the night, my 9 high straight won a pot worth $31,400.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 14 hands and saw flop:
- 2 out of 2 times while in big blind (100%)
- 2 out of 2 times while in small blind (100%)
- 9 out of 10 times in other positions (90%)
- a total of 13 out of 14 (92%)
Pots won at showdown - 2 of 5 (40%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

delta: $21,200
balance: $1,838,531

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