Thursday, April 30, 2015

Golden no more

My oldest poker indicator, which I call the golden ratio, is also my most tried-and-true indicator. It's very simple to state: if you can manage to win at least twice as many cash game sessions as you lose, your cash game balance cannot fail to grow. Over three and a half years ago, I achieved the golden ratio in cash game no limit hold'em, and thought I'd never relinquish it. Since I returned to cash games from tournaments, however, I've run badly enough to dip my cash game no limit hold'em ratio below the golden mark. This actually happened on Tuesday night. I lost last night's session as well, with a hefty bad beat distance of $92,563 on the final hand of the night. Without those two huge bad beats, I'd still be golden. I have no doubt I'll get back on the right side of the mark before too long.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 118 hands and saw flop:
 - 15 out of 18 times while in big blind (83%)
 - 15 out of 18 times while in small blind (83%)
 - 41 out of 82 times in other positions (50%)
 - a total of 71 out of 118 (60%)
 Pots won at showdown - 10 of 17 (58%)
 Pots won without showdown - 9

delta: $-50,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,412,980
balance: $9,160,139

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Bad beat distance

Last night, I played well, but was done in by a bad beat. It happened relatively early on in the session, on hand 38. The harshness of the bad beat prompted me to come up with a way to measure the severity of bad beats. Clearly, the more money you've invested, the worse a bad beat is. Equally clearly, the bigger the favorite you were to win the hand, the worse a bad beat is. I've come up with a way to account for both of these factors; I'm calling my new statistic the bad beat distance. Here's the formula:

bad_beat_distance = money_invested_in_the_hand +
    expected_value_of_the_hand

The expected value of the hand has its own formula:

expected_value of the_hand = ((100 * money_invested_in_the_hand * -1) +
    (win_pct * pot_size)) / 100

By the way, these formulas assume the bad beatee has gone all in; the money invested in the hand is the size of the bad beatee's stack at the start of the hand.

For the hand in question, the money invested in the hand was $57,183, my win percentage was 93 (i.e., I was a 93% favorite), and the pot size was $115,616. So the expected value of the hand was $50,339.88, and the bad beat distance was $107,522.88. Any time your bad beat distance is over $100,000, that's a damn bad bad beat :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 141 hands and saw flop:
 - 13 out of 16 times while in big blind (81%)
 - 8 out of 17 times while in small blind (47%)
 - 47 out of 108 times in other positions (43%)
 - a total of 68 out of 141 (48%)
 Pots won at showdown - 9 of 18 (50%)
 Pots won without showdown - 3

delta: $-18,711
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,462,980
balance: $9,210,139

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A rarity

I like nothing better than rarities, and last night's session was one. It satisfied all of the following criteria:

1. it was a cash game no limit hold'em session
2. it was a losing session
3. I didn't hit the felt
4. at the time I quit, my stack was the shortest it had been all session

Obviously, this is nothing much to crow about, except for the rarity itself :-) Here are the numbers:

744 number of cash game no limit hold'em sessions for which I have the hand histories
247 number of the above where I lost money
  52 number of the above where I didn't hit the felt at least once
  10 number of the above where my stack was shortest at the very end

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 87 hands and saw flop:
 - 8 out of 11 times while in big blind (72%)
 - 4 out of 11 times while in small blind (36%)
 - 31 out of 65 times in other positions (47%)
 - a total of 43 out of 87 (49%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 9 (55%)
 Pots won without showdown - 3

delta: $-40,099
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,481,691
balance: $9,228,850

Monday, April 27, 2015

Still no quad fours

Since I turned on the PokerStars feature to save the hand histories automatically, I've played 56,614 hands of cash game no limit hold'em. Of those hands, 57 have been four of a kinds. Last night, on hand 68, I hit quad twos. Here's my quads breakdown:

  3 quad aces
  7 quad kings
  2 quad queens
  6 quad jacks
  6 quad tens
  5 quad nines
  6 quad eights
  2 quad sevens
  6 quad sixes
  6 quad fives
  0 quad fours
  3 quad threes
  5 quad twos

As fate would have it, I've still never hit quad fours. I'm going to celebrate when I do :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 72 hands and saw flop:
 - 11 out of 13 times while in big blind (84%)
 - 9 out of 14 times while in small blind (64%)
 - 31 out of 45 times in other positions (68%)
 - a total of 51 out of 72 (70%)
 Pots won at showdown - 7 of 13 (53%)
 Pots won without showdown - 8

delta: $23,838
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,521,790
balance: $9,268,949

Sunday, April 26, 2015

IG;WS

On Friday night, on the final hand of the session, I got my money in good, but the hand went south on me. That's why I'm reusing shorthand from earlier this year for the title of this post. As a refresher, it stands for In Good; Went South. How good did I get my money in? Almost as good as it's possible to get it in. I was a 90.91% favorite after the turn, but my opponent hit a four outer on the river. Compounding the pain was the fact that I'd already hit the felt once earlier in the session, so the second time brought my losses up to an even $100,000. I knew it would be foolhardy to reup again, so I didn't.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 110 hands and saw flop:
 - 21 out of 25 times while in big blind (84%)
 - 18 out of 25 times while in small blind (72%)
 - 33 out of 60 times in other positions (55%)
 - a total of 72 out of 110 (65%)
 Pots won at showdown - 6 of 29 (20%)
 Pots won without showdown - 17

delta: $-100,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,497,952
balance: $9,245,111

Friday, April 24, 2015

Another top 20

As I've said before, it's a fine thing for a session to make it into the top 20 in some category. That happened again last night. Of course, given the nature of data, one could likely construct a category for every session which would guarantee it to make the top 20 in that particular category :-) For the record, I didn't do that. Actually, come to think of it, maybe I did :-) Two facts about last night's session stand out:

1. it was a long one
2. I was above water for most of it

I put these two facts together to come up with a category: underwater percentage for sessions over 100 hands long, sorted in ascending order. In this category, last night's session clocks in at number 18. I was underwater for just 15 of the 112 hands, for an underwater percentage of 13.39.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 112 hands and saw flop:
 - 12 out of 18 times while in big blind (66%)
 - 8 out of 17 times while in small blind (47%)
 - 37 out of 77 times in other positions (48%)
 - a total of 57 out of 112 (50%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 11 (45%)
 Pots won without showdown - 18

delta: $29,552
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,597,952
balance: $9,345,111

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Eating your vegetables

To keep your body healthy, it's important to eat your vegetables. It's not sexy, and not often much fun, but it's something you need to do. The same is true in poker. The poker equivalent of eating your vegetables is laying down good hands when you're pretty sure they're not best. Last night, I ate enough vegetables to avoid hitting the felt, but it didn't make me very happy. I'm hoping for some cake tonight :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 123 hands and saw flop:
 - 12 out of 17 times while in big blind (70%)
 - 10 out of 18 times while in small blind (55%)
 - 47 out of 88 times in other positions (53%)
 - a total of 69 out of 123 (56%)
 Pots won at showdown - 7 of 17 (41%)
 Pots won without showdown - 13

delta: $-28,497
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,568,400
balance: $9,315,559

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

My worst poker year

I ran the numbers, and 2015 is my worst poker year by far. It's the only year where I've lost money. Thankfully, two thirds of the year is still to come; I'm sure I'll end the year with a profit (provided I stick to cash games :-)). So far this year, I've lost $278,274. Most of that loss is from sit and gos and MTTs, though; I've only lost $1,434 playing cash games.

Last night, I couldn't win for losing; even though I kept my seeing the flop percentage low, I couldn't catch a break. That happens sometimes, and I expect it when it does.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 71 hands and saw flop:
 - 9 out of 9 times while in big blind (100%)
 - 4 out of 10 times while in small blind (40%)
 - 13 out of 52 times in other positions (25%)
 - a total of 26 out of 71 (36%)
 Pots won at showdown - 1 of 8 (12%)
 Pots won without showdown - 3

delta: $-50,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,596,897
balance: $9,344,056

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Adjusting to the table count

I love coming up with new ways of analyzing my poker data. One thing I'm going to take a look at soon is how my seeing the flop percentage varies by table count. It's clear that the less players there are at a table, the more often you should pay to see the flop. When you're heads up, you should essentially pay to see every flop. When you're three handed, you should pay to see a very high percentage of flops - perhaps as high as 90%. When you're nine handed, you should pay to see a much smaller percentage of flops - perhaps as low as 20%. A lot depends on how aggressively your opponents are playing.

Last night, the table count had a lot of variance. It started out high, and my seeing the flop percentage accordingly started out low. Midway through the session, the number of players kept dropping until it hit three, and I started paying to see a lot more flops. Late in the session, the table count got back up to the maximum of nine again. I think I did a pretty good job of adjusting to the table count.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 73 hands and saw flop:
 - 7 out of 9 times while in big blind (77%)
 - 9 out of 13 times while in small blind (69%)
 - 26 out of 51 times in other positions (50%)
 - a total of 42 out of 73 (57%)
 Pots won at showdown - 3 of 8 (37%)
 Pots won without showdown - 10

delta: $12,519
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,646,897
balance: $9,394,056

Monday, April 20, 2015

Best KTo ever

Last Thursday night, I had a losing session. As is my custom after a loss, I searched for any positives I could take away from it. The main positive I could find was that I didn't go on tilt after hitting the felt on hand 15 when my trip 10s ran into a full house. I reupped, hung in there, and finally recouped a bunch of my lost chips when I won hand 81 with the same hand I'd lost with before, trip 10s. In each case, I'd been dealt king ten offsuit (aka KTo). I ran the numbers and found that the KTo on hand 81 was my best ever, winning a pot worth $77,418, $41,619 of which was opm (other people's money).

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 82 hands and saw flop:
 - 10 out of 12 times while in big blind (83%)
 - 5 out of 11 times while in small blind (45%)
 - 24 out of 59 times in other positions (40%)
 - a total of 39 out of 82 (47%)
 Pots won at showdown - 7 of 12 (58%)
 Pots won without showdown - 4

delta: $-22,832
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,634,378
balance: $9,381,537

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Table captain

Last night, I got the chip lead at the table fairly early on, and kept it for a long time. At one point, I had over $40,000 more in chips than my nearest competitor. It's good practice to be the table captain. I wasn't being a bully, but was able to exert pressure when needed. It feels like such a luxury never to have the blinds escalating on me! I may never go back to tournaments again :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 145 hands and saw flop:
 - 15 out of 20 times while in big blind (75%)
 - 11 out of 20 times while in small blind (55%)
 - 49 out of 105 times in other positions (46%)
 - a total of 75 out of 145 (51%)
 Pots won at showdown - 12 of 24 (50%)
 Pots won without showdown - 12

delta: $44,039
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,657,210
balance: $9,404,369

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

My comfort zone

Last night, I returned to my comfort zone - cash game no limit hold'em. Every time I return, it feels so good and right I wonder whatever could have possessed me to try playing anything else. My new goal is to get my cash game no limit hold'em balance back into the blue. That's a squeak under $400,000 away. A mere bagatelle :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 53 hands and saw flop:
 - 6 out of 8 times while in big blind (75%)
 - 4 out of 9 times while in small blind (44%)
 - 18 out of 36 times in other positions (50%)
 - a total of 28 out of 53 (52%)
 Pots won at showdown - 9 of 13 (69%)
 Pots won without showdown - 3

delta: $14,840
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,613,171
balance: $9,360,330

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

A clear-cut quit signal

When I made my brief sojourn into the world of online chess earlier this year, I became aware of the fractal nature of chess eventualities. Good or bad outcomes can appear at many different magnification levels, and tend to match their counterparts at those other levels. The same is true, of course, of online poker. Indeed, life itself can be seen to have a fractal nature.

Poker often gives me a clear-cut signal to quit a session. I don't always heed the signal, but I almost always hear it :-) Last night, poker gave me a clear-cut signal to stop playing tournaments of any description, for a good long while. Here's how poker told me:

- the first tournament I entered was an MTT 8-game. I got ousted on hand 31 when my two pair of tens and sevens ran into a full house of aces full of sevens. My hole cards were pocket tens and the winner's hole cards were pocket aces.

- the next tournament I entered was a sit and go no limit hold'em. I got ousted on hand 15 when my full house of kings full of aces lost to four of a kind, kings. My hole cards were an ace seven offsuit and the winner's hole cards were king eight offsuit. I didn't manage to win a single hand.

- the next tournament I entered was another sit and go no limit hold'em. I got ousted on hand 24 when my two pair of tens and sixes ran into a two pair of aces and tens. My hole cards were ace six offsuit and the winner's hole cards were pocket aces.

Did I listen? No. I entered one more tournament, an MTT HORSE, and almost made it to the money. However, looking back at those first three tournaments, it's clear that poker was telling me to go back to cash games for a while :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        31    61        0
  4500       500           6        15     5        0
  4500       500           6        24     5        0
  4500       500           6        64    20        0


delta: $-20,000
MTT HORSE balance: $-5,600
balance: $9,345,490

Monday, April 13, 2015

The MTT value proposition

I've known for a long time how hard it is to make a profit playing sit and gos. With the big increases PokerStars has made over time to the entry fees, it's nearly impossible. I haven't had a ton of experience with MTTs, but I'm getting the distinct impression that the MTT value proposition is as thin as the sit and go one. The only logical conclusion to be drawn is that you have to be a little bit crazy to play either sit and gos or MTTs. What can I say? I'm a little bit crazy :-)

The ugly truth of MTTs is that while it's not very hard to min cash in them, min cashes just won't cut it, profit-wise. I've played 3 MTT HORSEs, min cashed in two of them, and am slightly in the red for my troubles. The only way to make MTTs pay is to do better than min cash a significant percentage of the time you make the money.

Last night, I might have done better than min cashing the last tournament I played had I not made a really stupid mistake. On my final hand of the night, I played a Stud Hi/Lo low hand as it were a Razz low; in other words, I forgot all about the 8 or better requirement. I threw away my last $1,330 on a hand where I was drawing dead to an 8 low. Ouch!

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        24    60        0
  4500       500           6        46     3        0
  4500       500           6        82    14     7380

delta: $-7,620
MTT HORSE balance: $-600
balance: $9,365,490

Sunday, April 12, 2015

The big middle

MTTs have big middles. It's easy to get lost in them. That's what happened to me, twice, on Friday night. You have to expect that to happen a fair amount of the time, though. It's really hard to make a profit playing tournaments, but the challenge of doing that is what inspires me. If it were easy, everyone would do it :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        35    40        0
  4500       500           6        55    54        0


delta: $-10,000
MTT 8-game balance: $106,900
balance: $9,373,110

Friday, April 10, 2015

HORSE of a different color

Last night, after playing a sit and go no limit hold'em and an MTT 8-game, I played my first MTT HORSE, making the money. I can actually say I've never played a HORSE tournament and not made the money :-) Granted, I've only played two, but still. Given my early success, I'm definitely going to play more. I figure now is a good time to review my record in the different poker flavors:

     avg       sum   count    style           flavor

  8237.6167  6598331  801   Cash game     No Limit Hold'em
  3787.7083   181810   48   Sit & Go      8-Game
  3100.9180  1172147  378   Cash game     Pot Limit Hold'em
  2602.3256   111900   43   MTT           8-Game
  2600.0000     2600    1   Sit & Go      HORSE
  2166.9764  1282850  592   Sit & Go      No Limit Hold'em
  2020.0000     2020    1   MTT           HORSE
  1036.7018    59092   57   Cash game     Limit 7 Card Stud
   577.5000     1155    2   Cash game     Pot Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball
   417.4167    15027   36   Cash game     No Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball
  -500.0000     -500    1   Cash game     Limit 5 Card Draw
  -630.0000    -1260    2   Sit & Go      Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball
  -897.0000     -897    1   Cash game     Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball
 -1724.5610   -70707   41   Cash game     Pot Limit Omaha
 -2800.0000    -8400    3   MTT           No Limit Hold'em
-50800.0000   -50800    1   Sit & Go      Limit Hold'em


As you can see, I've sorted this list by average. It's heartening to see that five of the top seven spots are taken by tournaments of some description.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        66     1    17550
  4500       500           6        44    53        0
  4500       500           6        70    14     7020


delta: $9,570
MTT HORSE balance: $2,020
balance: $9,383,110

Thursday, April 9, 2015

New personal worst

The longer you've played poker, the harder it gets to set either a new personal best or a new personal worst. I've mentioned before that I get almost as much of a thrill from setting a personal worst as I do from setting a personal best. That may seem strange, but it's the truth. I love setting records of any kind :-) Last night, I set a new personal worst. I had the losingest 11 session stretch of my career, based on the number of profitable sessions within that stretch. I only managed a profit in one of those sessions. Here are the top 10 (the numbers in parentheses are the profitable sessions):

   -259850 2015-03-22 2015-04-08 (1)
   -472556 2014-08-28 2014-09-10 (2)
   -229200 2015-03-20 2015-04-07 (2)
    -75300 2015-01-03 2015-01-16 (2)
   -548250 2014-03-07 2014-03-19 (3)
   -448250 2014-03-08 2014-03-20 (3)
   -388217 2013-05-19 2013-05-29 (3)
   -370006 2014-08-27 2014-09-09 (3)
   -317848 2013-12-17 2013-12-31 (3)
   -227056 2014-08-29 2014-09-11 (3)


I'm having a ton of fun playing both sit and gos and MTTs, even though I'm not doing particularly well at them. I find them both more fun and more challenging than cash games, so I'm going to keep playing them until either the fun or the challenge wears off.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        82     2     9450
  4500       500           6       101    13        0
  4500       500           6        86     3        0


delta: $-5,550
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,270,300
balance: $9,373,540

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Appointment poker

Last night, I was planning on playing an MTT HORSE; the only problem was, I was caught between tournaments. They run every two hours, and late registration for the currently running tournament had already closed. If I really wanted to play MTT HORSE, I'd need to wait nearly an hour for the next one to start. I'd kind of assumed there'd be a nightly MTT HORSE starting at 9:42pm, since there's a nightly MTT 8-game which starts then. However, these tournaments are staggered; at 42 minutes past the hour, either an MTT 8-game or an MTT HORSE is starting, but not both.

Since late registration was still open for the 9:42 MTT 8-game, I entered that one instead. This turned out to be a big mistake! I only lasted 9 hands. I now believe the best time to enter an MTT is not when it starts, and not 10 minutes or less before the end of the registration period, as was the case last night; the best time to enter is about 25 - 30 minutes after the tournament starts. That way, there'll be some dead money in the pool, but the blinds won't have risen to the point where your starting stack can be eaten up as fast as it could be if you waited longer to enter.

After my MTT 8-game fiasco, I played three sit and go no limit hold'em tournaments. I steadily improved my results, finally making the money in the third one. Given my current habits, the 9:42 MTT 8-game is the ideal tournament for me. Also, I've realized that no limit hold'em is too important a part of my arsenal for me to ever consider HORSE as anything other than a fun diversion now and then.

People talk about appointment T.V. I can see myself becoming an appointment poker addict :-) My appointment occurs at 10:10pm nightly :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6         9    72        0
  4500       500           6        13     4        0
  4500       500           6        25     3        0
  4500       500           6        63     2     9450


delta: $-10,550
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,270,850
balance: $9,379,090

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

My kingdom may be HORSE

It's funny how you can play poker for years and years and somehow never get around to playing certain flavors. Last night, after busting out of an MTT 8-game pretty early on, I played HORSE for the very first time. Of course, none of the five games in HORSE are new to me; what's new is playing that particular combination of games in rotation. HORSE is 8-game minus 3 games; the games in 8-game which don't appear in HORSE are deuce, no limit hold'em, and pot limit Omaha. If I switch allegiances from 8-game to HORSE, I certainly won't miss pot limit Omaha, and won't miss deuce very much; however, I'll sorely miss no limit hold'em.

It turns out PokerStars has both sit and gos and MTTs for HORSE, just like it does for 8-game. Last night, I played a sit and go HORSE. Interestingly, HORSE tournaments seat 8 players, not 6. It's likely the absence of deuce which allows this.

How did I do? I came out on top, baby :-) I have a hunch HORSE may be my new kingdom.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        46    52        0
   900       100           6       147     1     3600


delta: $-2,400
Sit and go HORSE balance: $2,600
balance: $9,389,640

Monday, April 6, 2015

The MTT golden ratio

As it turns out, the sit and go dream ratio is actually the MTT golden ratio. Making the money half of the time in sit and gos is essentially a dream, but doing it in MTTs is actually achievable. I've now played 42 MTTs, and have made the money in 20 of them. Of those 42, 39 were MTT 8-games, in 19 of which I made the money. The whole point of golden ratios is that they should be achievable. The wonderful thing about MTTs is that a lot of bad players play in them. One of the dirty secrets of poker is that good players do well mainly because there are so many bad players who are willing to play against them :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6       132     7    14170


delta: $9,170
MTT 8-game balance: $131,900
balance: $9,392,040

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Dancing with the one who brung you considered harmful

In cash games, it certainly makes sense to dance with the one who brung you. That is to say, stick with your bread and butter. The techniques which have brought you the most success should be the techniques you stick with. Tournaments, however, are an entirely different kettle of fish. Tournaments require you to morph your playing style at various key points. Failure to change your playing style when it's called for will seal your doom. That's what happened to me in the MTT 8-game I entered on Friday night. I'd nearly made it into the money, had a chip stack well above the average, and only needed to play tight to ensure myself a profit. Instead, I played as if I were nowhere near the bubble, bled huge amounts of chips on two of my last six hands, and finished four places outside the money. Live and learn!

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

 45000      5000           6       107     3        0
  4500       500           6        76    28        0


delta: $-55,000
MTT 8-game balance: $122,730
balance: $9,382,870

Friday, April 3, 2015

A razzberry for neo

Last night, I made the money in an MTT, which is always a nice achievement. However, I might have done a lot better had I been paying more attention. I deserve a Bronx cheer for falling asleep at the switch. Late in the tournament, I made the horrible mistake on one particular hand of thinking I was playing Razz when the game had actually changed to Stud. Of course, that particular hand was the first hand of Stud in that rotation. I bet my low heavily, and had a predictably rude awakening at showdown. I give myself a "razzberry" :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6       117    22     4480


delta: $-520
MTT 8-game balance: $127,730
balance: $9,437,870

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Doppelsession

Last night's session was a doppelsession of the one before it. I entered the regularly scheduled 9:42 pm MTT 8-game, failed to make the money in it, then entered a $50,000 sit and go 8-game where I ended up in fourth after a lengthy run. I can't help but feel I'm overdue to make some dough :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        45    52        0
 45000      5000           6        93     4        0


delta: $-55,000
Sit and go 8-game balance: $231,810
balance: $9,438,390

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

My first century fourth

Last night, I set a personal best for number of hands played in a sit and go where I finished in fourth place - a full 114. It's my first century fourth :-) I was short stacked for much of the tournament, but kept on fighting. This was after I'd already played an MTT 8-game. I like both MTTs and sit and gos; the key thing is that the flavor must be 8-game.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        77    40        0
 45000      5000           6       114     4        0


delta: $-55,000
Sit and go 8-game balance: $281,810
balance: $9,493,390