I've been off work for 3 months (so, no "get a life" comments pls )and this site has been my main source of entertainment. Thanks Ryan.

The technical improvement since christmas has been outstanding.

As to the doubts about whether hands are random...having nothing better to do, I tracked a couple of 100-200 tables for over 2 hours. Here are some facts.

About half of all hands (48%)have a contested outcome (you see the result) .Among those,the winning hands were:

FH 6%
flush 10%
Str8 15%
trips 13%
2pr 19%
pr 31%
hc 6%

Some other incidences...

Pair in the flop = 10%
Pair on the table= 20%

Ace in flop =11%
K in flop =18%

Make of that what you will! Facts do shed light on opinions.

John in Aus