Monday, May 21, 2012

Strange Overtone

In the spirit, though not quite the letter, of celebrating songs I like by naming blog posts after them, I offer up this latest instance. The actual title of the song is "Strange Overtones", by David Byrne and Brian Eno. I had to remove the final 's' in order for it to apply to Saturday night's session. In the vast majority of my winning sessions, at least the top three absolute value hand deltas are from hands I won. On Saturday night, the strange overtone was from the top absolute value hand delta, which came from a hand I lost. Here are the top 10 absolute value hand deltas of the session (with the losing ones preceded by a negative sign):

-19700
19000
18400
17000
14500
-8800
-8500
6300
-5400
5400

The $-19,700 loss came on hand 90, when I'd been dealt cowboys (a pair of kings) and they ended up losing to a full house, nines full of queens. I was a 95% favorite after the turn, but the full house hit on the river. Whatcha gonna do?

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 97 hands and saw flop:
 - 12 out of 15 times while in big blind (80%)
 - 8 out of 14 times while in small blind (57%)
 - 36 out of 68 times in other positions (52%)
 - a total of 56 out of 97 (57%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 10 (50%)
 Pots won without showdown - 11

delta: $9,100
balance: $4,553,894

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