Aces and faces

One of the wonderful things about poker is that if you play long enough, you'll experience periods where you get great cards with great frequency. It was my turn last night. I kept getting aces and faces. AQ multiple times, and AK even more often. It's hard to fail to make the money in such cases, and I didn't :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      74   21     9   489000

delta: $289,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,708,768
2021 balance: $387,000
blue distance: $1,128,900
balance: $78,052,453

Aces and faces

Last night, I hit the felt a grand total of 6 times - 3 in both of the tournaments I played. The first two in both were before the late registration period had ended, so of course I opted for the double rebuy in those cases. To prove I wasn't shoving light, here are the hole cards I held, preceded by the number of chips lost on the hand:

2,775 Kh Ks 
2,800 Ad Qh 
6,450 Ad Kc 
2,625 Qh Qs 
1,375 Ks 5s 
6,562 Td As

Lots of aces and lots of faces :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    29      66   15    40        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    98      75   15    13   331000

delta: $-269,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $40,884,500
2018 balance: $7,161,000
balance: $52,674,260