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 :-)

This is an excerpt from my April 9, 2015 post. My new personal worst: last night, I lost the most play money I've ever lost in a single cash game - a whopping $800,000. My previous worst was less than half that - $350,000. The reason I lost so much? That table had much higher blinds than the cash game tables I'd normally played before. Back in the day, my sweet spot was tables where the blinds were $500/$1,000, and the minimum initial stake was $40,000. At last night's table, the blinds were $5,000/$10,000, and the minimum initial stake was $400,000. This is not deterring me from playing more cash games, but I'll change my table selection criteria slightly; instead of picking 6max, I'll pick 9max. 6max is ideal for tournaments, but not so much for cash games.

delta: $-800,000
Cash game NLHE balance: $4,873,317
2022 balance: $-1,143,300
blue distance: $1,400,000
balance: $93,700,653