Monday, August 18, 2014

43.7 million cash game play dollars lost

There are many differences between cash game poker and tournament poker. Though I've flirted with tournament poker, and done reasonably well at it, I feel I'm a cash game player at heart. It's really hard to be excellent at both. They require vastly different mindsets. One of the quirky things about tournament poker is that you never know how well you've done until your tournament life is over. When you lose a hand, you don't know if you've actually lost any money yet. The chips in a tournament don't represent actual money. In stark contrast, the chips in a cash game do represent actual money. When you lose a hand in a cash game, your bankroll has just lost the dollar amount that the chips represented. You can calculate the amount of money you've lost over time playing cash game poker simply by summing your negative hand deltas. I've just been through this exercise, and the result is a gargantuan $-43,697,335. -43.7 million, for all practical purposes. The good news is, the amount I've won over time playing cash game poker is an even more gargantuan $50,122,262.

During current Stud session you were dealt 60 hands and:
- saw fourth street 50 times (83%)
- saw fifth street 43 times (71%)
- saw sixth street 35 times (58%)
- reached showdown 11 times (18%)
 Pots won at showdown - 7 of 11 (63%)
 Pots won without showdown - 4

delta: $25,260
cash game 7 card stud balance: $131,282
balance: $10,217,016

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