Shipfest

I first learned of the poker expression "Ship it" from an article in Card Player magazine (which I read online); here's the relevant passage:

1. Ship It: This expression usually comes from the mouth of a person who just won a large pot. The common reason for its unpleasantness is that the player who lost the hand usually interprets it as rude. One of our Facebook users described it as the most tilting thing one can hear at a poker table.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/12016-a-ranking-of-the-ten-most-overused-poker-terms-and-expressions

I've never used the expression myself (except sometimes in my head :-) With this background, the title of this post should become clear. The second (and final) tournament I played last night was a shipfest, since a huge stack of chips was shipped from player to player in fairly rapid procession. I was sitting in seat 2. On hand 2, Seat 1 shipped $990 my way. On hand 7, I shipped $820 of it to Seat 6. On hand 9, Seat 6 shipped $500 of it to Seat 3. It was pretty comical that nobody could hold onto it. The moral of the story is that when a huge stack is shipped your way, it behooves you to play a lot tighter from that point on, to try to protect it.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

 80000      1000           6        16     5        0
 80000      1000           6        30     5        0

delta: $-162,000
tournament balance: $1,729,090
balance: $6,859,821