Saturday, October 27, 2012

The difference between a wash and a bath

Last night, I played six tournaments. The most memorable hand of the night ended up being the difference between a wash and a bath. In tournament 4, I made it to heads up with less than a third of the chips. In a short time, I got to a commanding chip lead of $5,110 to $890. The hand that was my undoing was hand 68; here's how it went down:

Table '634554122 1' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: (2680 in chips)
Seat 4: neostreet (3320 in chips)
Seat 2: posts small blind 100
neostreet: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [3s Qs]
Seat 2: calls 100
neostreet: raises 200 to 400
Seat 2: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [4h Qd 3d]
neostreet: checks
Seat 2: bets 400
neostreet: raises 400 to 800
Seat 2: raises 1480 to 2280 and is all-in
neostreet: calls 1480
*** TURN *** [4h Qd 3d] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [4h Qd 3d 8d] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
neostreet: shows [3s Qs] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
Seat 2: shows [6d Qc] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
Seat 2 collected 5360 from pot


I was a 64% favorite to win after the flop, but it wasn't to be. Since my opponent had gone all in, I would have won the tournament if I'd won that hand. If I'd won that tournament, my session delta would have been $-4,800, essentially a wash. Since I lost it, my session delta turned out to be $-94,800, which is more like taking a bath :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

 50000       800           6        32     5        0
 50000       800           6        87     2   105000
 50000       800           6        37     4        0
 50000       800           6        69     2   105000
 50000       800           6        38     4        0
 50000       800           6        12     6        0


delta: $-94,800
tournament balance: $1,627,890
balance: $6,758,621

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