Going like sixty

Tonight, I'm going to quote from an earlier post in which I quoted from an even earlier post. I'll have to use two different colors :-) Here's an excerpt of what I had to say on September 8, 2018:

The more blog posts you write, the easier it becomes to quote yourself. Here's what I had to say on June 20, 2016, in a post with the same title as this one:

To make the money in an MTT, you need to outlast roughly 75% of your competitors. Outlasting less than 50% of them would clearly be a failure. However, is there some percentage you could outlast, and still be able to consider it a success of sorts, even though you failed to make the money? I think there is, and I'm pegging it at 60. By this criterion, the first of the two MTT NLHEs I played last night was a success, since I outlasted 61.68% of my opponents :-)

I went like sixty for the duration of last night's session, though I failed to make the money. I have to believe better outcomes are coming my way.

Last night, I had a percentile of 61.84% in the one tournament I entered. As before, I have to believe better outcomes are coming my way.

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6      76   21    29        0

delta: $-50,000
MTT NLHE balance: $8,828,668
2020 balance: $1,853,343
balance: $63,661,353