Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Bad river money

There are times when it pays to bet big on the river, and there are other times when it makes no sense to bet a single chip. If you do happen to bet in those latter situations, that's what I call bad river money.

This is an excerpt from my September 13, 2013 post. On Monday night, I spent a ton of bad river money on a hand where I'd been dealt pocket queens. I failed to notice that the river card supported a straight. The only reason I didn't hit the rail was because I had more chips at the start of the hand than the opponent who hit the straight had. My stack was crippled, however, and I hit the rail shortly after. Served me right!

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     142   23    38         0

delta: $-5,000,000
MTT NLHE balance: $371,561,468
2022 balance: $291,817,000
blue distance: $65,170,000
balance: $386,660,953

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