The great eight

Since October 12th, 2011, when I turned on the PokerStars feature to auto-save the full hand histories, I've played 62,173 cash game no limit hold'em hands. There's a wealth of data to explore in those hand histories. Last night, I won the biggest cash game pot of my cash game no limit hold'em career - over a quarter of a million play dollars. Not surprisingly, the hand delta, over 175,000 play dollars, was also a career best. This set me to wondering how many times I've had a hand delta which was a career best at the time the hand was played. You'd think, with that many hands, the number would have to be over 100, right? You'd be wrong. Next, you'd think it would have to be over 10, right? You'd be wrong again. The number is astonishingly low - just 8. I hereby dub them the great eight! Here they are:

  $8,200 2011-10-12   5 (5)
 $31,200 2011-10-13  47 (114)
 $44,750 2011-10-14  70 (185)
 $79,100 2011-10-22  66 (588)
$120,250 2011-11-05  71 (1431)
$141,500 2012-06-30  32 (15053)
$145,680 2014-04-11  26 (44890)
$176,647 2016-06-04   7 (62122)

The third column contains the session hand numbers; the final column contains the career hand numbers. As you can see, these career best hands tend to get further and further apart. I can expect the next one any time within the next five to ten years :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 58 hands and saw flop:
 - 3 out of 8 times while in big blind (37%)
 - 1 out of 5 times while in small blind (20%)
 - 19 out of 45 times in other positions (42%)
 - a total of 23 out of 58 (39%)
 Pots won at showdown - 6 of 10 (60%)
 Pots won without showdown - 0

delta: $116,916
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $5,887,462
balance: $10,132,604