Saturday, January 12, 2013

Poker sonnet

Some of the most beautiful poems in the English language are in the sonnet form. This form imposes structural, rhythmic, and rhyming constraints on the poet, but despite these constraints, or perhaps even because of them, the beauty of a well-made sonnet is manifest. Last night, I flatter myself that I wrote a poker sonnet. The constraints on poker sonnets are not as strict as those of the poetic kind, yet they do exist and must be adhered to. Here are the ones I've come up with, after over four years of playing poker:

- the session must be a winning one
- it must be at most 30 hands long
- the "seeing the flop" percentage must be well under 50
- the "pots won at showdown" percentage must be well over 50
- the maximum amount lost on a single hand should be at most a tenth of the maximum amount won on a single hand

Check, check, check, check, check :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 29 hands and saw flop:
 - 2 out of 3 times while in big blind (66%)
 - 2 out of 4 times while in small blind (50%)
 - 5 out of 22 times in other positions (22%)
 - a total of 9 out of 29 (31%)
 Pots won at showdown - 2 of 3 (66%)
 Pots won without showdown - 0

delta: $49,200
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $3,998,506
balance: $6,447.914


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