Out on top

The holy grail of the cash game poker player is to go out on top. That is, to leave the table when your stack is the biggest it's been the whole night long. Even though I've achieved this many times, I don't consider it an easy thing to do. The dilemma you face when you go out on top is not knowing whether or not you're cheating yourself of even greater profit. It's a nice problem to have, but it's still a problem of sorts :-) Today I wrote a program to calculate the number of out on top sessions I've had in my cash game no limit hold'em career. I actually wrote two programs - one to calculate the number of "pure" out on top sessions, and another to calculate the number of "penultimate hand" out on top sessions, where I disregard the last hand of the night. The reason for the latter categorization is not to be penalized for losing a small blind or a big blind on the last hand of the night, when all I'm trying to do is get out of Dodge. Here are the numbers:

134 "pure" out on top winning sessions
263 "penultimate hand" out on top winning sessions
426 winning sessions
625 sessions

It's encouraging to note that in well over half my winning sessions, I went out on top.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 54 hands and saw flop:
 - 6 out of 7 times while in big blind (85%)
 - 5 out of 7 times while in small blind (71%)
 - 24 out of 40 times in other positions (60%)
 - a total of 35 out of 54 (64%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 10 (50%)
 Pots won without showdown - 7

delta: $26,807
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,012,984
balance: $9,070,687