Showing posts with label distant thunder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distant thunder. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The sound of distant thunder

The title of this post is how I always misremember the title of a classic science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, whose actual title is "A Sound of Thunder". The misremembered title is actually a better fit for the poker feeling I'm trying to describe. What I mean by the sound of distant thunder in a poker context is the sense of unease you get playing No Limit Hold'em, where any player at the table can go all in at any time. It's not actually a sound occurring in the present; it's a sound which might occur in the very near future, and the threat of its occurring makes you able to hear it faintly, as though it were coming from a distance, in the present.

Last night I played a much shorter session, and was able to come out in the black. On the penultimate hand, I won a pot worth $40,600 with aces and eights.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 23 hands and saw flop:
- 3 out of 3 times while in big blind (100%)
- 3 out of 3 times while in small blind (100%)
- 11 out of 17 times in other positions (64%)
- a total of 17 out of 23 (73%)
Pots won at showdown - 1 of 3 (33%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

delta: $13,000
balance: $994,334