Monday, June 3, 2013

The best of the luck

Poker is a game of pattern recognition. There are only so many patterns. The more you play poker, the more you see the same patterns repeating again and again. Luck flows in and out like the tide. You want to try to quit just when a big wave has rolled all the way in. One of the most important patterns to recognize is this very pattern of a big wave of luck rolling in. Another way to describe it is realizing when you've had the best of the luck. Last night, I failed to recognize the pattern. It wasn't too costly a mistake, though; I caught on before the wave had fully subsided.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 85 hands and saw flop:
 - 7 out of 11 times while in big blind (63%)
 - 9 out of 12 times while in small blind (75%)
 - 28 out of 62 times in other positions (45%)
 - a total of 44 out of 85 (51%)
 Pots won at showdown - 6 of 11 (54%)
 Pots won without showdown - 5

delta: $-5,655
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $4,860,058
balance: $7,309,466

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