Appointment cancelled

Last night, for the first time, I experienced the MTT equivalent of a sit and go table which doesn't fill up - a cancelled MTT. Earlier in the session, I'd played (and narrowly missed making the money in) the MTT 8-game which started at 9:42 pm. To while away the time until the next MTT 8-game, which wasn't scheduled to start until 11:42 pm, I played several sit and go no limit hold'em tournaments. When I tried late registering for the 11:42 pm MTT 8-game sometime after midnight, it was nowhere to be found. Apparently, if not enough people pre-register for an MTT, PokerStars simply cancels it :-(

There's not much I can do to make 8-game more popular on PokerStars. No limit hold'em is the 800 pound gorilla. Looks like I'll be playing more "gorilla" than 8-game in the foreseeable future. Oh, well; there are worse things :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    57     102   24    26        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    44       6    2     2    94500
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    25       6    2     4        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    41       6    2     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    27       6    2     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    82       6    2     2    94500

delta: $-66,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,379,800
balance: $10,288,764