Sunday, July 17, 2022

In praise of the B-side

As you may know, I maintain a relational database of my poker data. This allows me to slice and dice it in a myriad of ways. To be able to uniquely identify poker tournaments which I played in the same session, I populate a database field I named tournament_letter. I assign the letter 'a' to the first tournament I play in a session, 'b' to the second, and so on. I've noticed a recent pattern where I fail to make the money in the first tournament (let's call it the A-side), but make it in the second (let's call it the B-side). This made me curious about how my B-side winning percentage compares to my A-side one. Answer: it's significantly better, as least this year. So far in 2022, my A-side winning percentage is 36.9 (48 of 130) and my B-side winning percentage is 50.0 (21 of 42). Let's hear it for the B-side :-)

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     152   23    44         0
MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8      92   15     9  10940000

delta: $-4,060,000
MTT NLHE balance: $240,511,468
2022 balance: $167,147,000
blue distance: $4,060,000
balance: $261,990,953

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