Oned

Last night, something happened to me at the poker table that had never happened before. I was oned. I've been eighteened before, more than once; I've been seventeened before. I've been sixteened. I've been nined. I've been eighted. I've even been sevened. Never in my life, however, had I ever been oned before last night. I take it as a token of esteem and affection, straight from the the poker gods to me. The rarity of the occurence is so great, it really doesn't matter that I was on the wrong side of it. It's as big an honor to have played the losing part as it would have been to play the winning one. Here's what happened:

I was dealt 7c 6s, and the flop came 7s 7d 6h. In other words, I flopped a fatty. I ran my homegrown "percent at flop" utility to calculate how big a favorite this made me. Here are the numbers:

  wins      1052114 (98.31)
    fh      1005596
    4k        46518
  losses      10800 ( 1.01)
    fh        10668
    4k           66
    sf           66
  ties         7276 ( 0.68)
    fh         7276
  total     1070190
    fh      1023540
    4k        46584
    sf           66

My opponent had been dealt Tc 7h. The turn was the ten of spades, which gave him a better full house than mine. I was drawing dead at that point, but didn't know it. He went all in on the river. I called, and promptly hit the felt.

Only players who truly love poker will ever have a hand like this happen to them. Why? The answer is actually quite simple. You have to play a ton of hands to have something like this happen to you. No one could play that many hands without truly loving poker.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 97 hands and saw flop:
 - 18 out of 23 times while in big blind (78%)
 - 17 out of 22 times while in small blind (77%)
 - 36 out of 52 times in other positions (69%)
 - a total of 71 out of 97 (73%)
 Pots won at showdown - 8 of 23 (34%)
 Pots won without showdown - 19

delta: $-40,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $4,815,971
balance: $7,172,924