The lower 48

I set a new personal worst last night. I had the worst eight tournament stretch of my tournament career. When you're playing 6-max, the worst you can do in such a stretch is to come in sixth all eight times. I didn't do that, but wasn't far off. The sum of my places came out to a gaudy 38 out of the worst possible total of 48. I call that the lower 48 :-)

The only way to do so poorly is to bet too big, too early, and too often. When you do that, you don't give other players the chance to make donkey moves. In effect, you're the one who's being the donkey! There's no excuse for playing that friskily in tournaments. I promise not to fall into that trap tonight.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

 45000      5000           6         2     6        0
 45000      5000           6        15     3        0
 45000      5000           6         5     6        0
 45000      5000           6         8     6        0
 45000      5000           6        30     3        0
 45000      5000           6         9     5        0
 45000      5000           6        14     5        0
 45000      5000           6        14     4        0

delta: $-400,000
tournament balance: $643,590
balance: $7,526,289