Competing against yourself

When you do something really well, you're creating a worthy future opponent. To be more precise, this opponent will eventually be a worthy past opponent; he'll be someone you measure yourself against in the future, but his accomplishments will have occurred in the past. In the last five sessions, I've made a packet of play money - $3,653,375 to be exact. However, since I've done so well this year, this latest five bagger doesn't crack my all-time top ten; it falls just outside, in 11th place. Amazingly enough, the top 39 spots on my career five bagger list all fall in 2017. The year of the rebuy :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

KO    NLHE    42500  7500       9    46       9    3     1    95625
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    71      64   15    26        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9   125      49   12     3  1735000

delta: $1,365,625
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $21,477,500
2017 balance: $22,438,830
balance: $33,856,660