PEAL

It's fun condensing poker wisdom into short, easy-to-remember acronyms. For your consideration, I submit my latest: PEAL. PEAL stands for three things which are essential to poker success: patience, evaluative ability, and luck. These elements aren't equally weighted, however; the first two each have twice the weight of the third. That is, if you have poker success, you can attribute 40% of it to patience, 40% to evaluative ability, and 20% to luck.

On Saturday night, all three came into play. Patience, since it was a long session. Evaluative ability, since the largest amount I lost on any one hand all night was $4,600. Luck, since on the biggest pot I won, I hit a flush on the turn when an opponent had flopped a stealth two pair. In general, it doesn't do you much good to hit a big hand if one of your opponents doesn't hit nearly as big a one at the same time.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 126 hands and saw flop:
 - 12 out of 15 times while in big blind (80%)
 - 14 out of 16 times while in small blind (87%)
 - 65 out of 95 times in other positions (68%)
 - a total of 91 out of 126 (72%)
 Pots won at showdown - 12 of 23 (52%)
 Pots won without showdown - 10

delta: $72,914
balance: $4,670,016