Monday, September 28, 2015

Blue distance nightmare

I have some numbers to show you. I'll show them first, then explain what they mean.

10    2009
 3    2010
 4    2011
 5    2012
21    2015


Knowing, as you do, that 2015 is a poker annus horribilis for me, you know that whatever the number in the left column signifies, a higher one must be worse than a lower one. I went for two full years, 2013 and 2014, without recording a single observation of the mystery statistic. This year, I've more than doubled the highest number of observations of this statistic from any previous single year, and I still have 95 sessions to go.

Okay, enough beating around the bush. The mystery statistic is the number of sessions where my blue distance reached an all-time high. Just as a refresher, the blue distance is the distance a stack has fallen from its all-time high. The best value for a blue distance is 0, which means your stack is currently at its all-time high. It's very bad when your blue distance reaches an all-time high, since that means you're the furthest from former glory that you've ever been. Currently, the blue distance of my overall balance is a whopping $3,275,414. That officially qualifies it as a blue distance nightmare :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 95 hands and saw flop:
 - 10 out of 14 times while in big blind (71%)
 - 3 out of 13 times while in small blind (23%)
 - 29 out of 68 times in other positions (42%)
 - a total of 42 out of 95 (44%)
 Pots won at showdown - 4 of 9 (44%)
 Pots won without showdown - 9

delta: $-6,257
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $5,940,734
balance: $7,229,965

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