The hotball analogy

When I was a kid, I lived next door to an apple orchard. Besides selling apples and cider there, they stocked a truly excellent penny candy counter. Hotballs were one of my favorites. You had to be a little masochistic to love them, since they were so flaming hot. The thing was, they didn't stay as hot as they started out; that was their secret, and their saving grace. They got positively mild at the very end, and that was the hotball stage I liked the best. Of course, as soon as I finished one, I'd start right in on another, and have to undergo the initial shock and awe to my taste buds all over again :-)

What does this have to do with poker? Simply this - poker tournaments remind me of hotballs. They take a lot of work on your part to get them to the stage where you like them the best, but if and when you do get there, it's so totally worth it. Whenever a tournament is over, you discover you can't wait to go through all that agony one more time :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    46      77   18    32        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9   146      67   15     3  2075000

delta: $1,675,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $41,920,000
2019 balance: $7,916,250
balance: $54,500,510