Originally Posted by
OldPhiKap
Phil Gordon posed something along the following in his Little Green Book:
You get dealt AA once every 221 hands on average. You get dealt about 350 hands in a 10-hour session. Which means that over six days of a tournament, you will get AA dealt to you roughly 9 or 10 times on average.
You are an 85% favorite with AA against a random hand. So if you shove with AA each time and get called by any two cards, you survive the first flip 85% of the time. You survive the first two flips 72% of the time, First three, 61% ...
The odds of surviving all ten of such such flips, despite having the absolute best starting hand possible, is only about 20%.
So, running well helps.