Ninepins

In some tournaments, players are really in a hurry to go big or go home. Those are the kind of tournaments I love :-) When enough opponents are that impatient, they go down like ninepins, and actually make it hard for you not to make the money. That's the kind of hardship to go out of your way to find. I found it in the second tournament I entered last night.

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      71   18    36        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       9     143   36    12    99000

delta: $-151,000
MTT NLHE balance: $9,344,668
2020 balance: $2,413,343
balance: $64,221,353

Ninepins

Things can happen in a hurry in sit and gos. In the first one I entered last night, opponents were going down like ninepins early on. One player was knocked out on the very first hand, and two more were knocked out on the second. I was an innocent bystander both times. I played the next 23 hands on the bubble, and came in second. Believing this was the earliest I'd ever gotten to three handed play, I checked the archives and discovered I was wrong. Two separate times, I've gotten to three handed play after only a single hand. God bless impatient players :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    67     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    75     3        0

delta: $-11,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,965,800
balance: $9,652,379