PokerNews · Nov 2, 2015
On Improbable Events in Poker: Learn How to Take Your Lumps
In a weekly home game in which I frequently participate, we had a new player join the game recently. I suspect he’ll be eager to come back, because his first outing with us was one of those nights that seems statistically off the charts.
Playing no-limit hold’em with a $20 buy-in and blinds of $0.25/$0.25, he made $221 in four hours, or 221 big blinds per hour profit. Nice work if you can get it!
The main driver of his winning was an incredible number of full houses when opponents had trips, straights, and flushes. This happened enough that a couple of us kept teasingly repeating a line from Rounders:
“F*&# you and your never-ending string of boats!”