The front page

Though I never listened to Garrison Keillor's radio show "A Prairie Home Companion", it was so popular that I became aware of some of its home-spun humor anyway. One of the phrases which forced its way into my consciousness through the sheer brute strength of its comicality was the following:

"Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

The mathematical impossibility of all the children being above average is what turns hyperbole into comic absurdity. Of course, it's very human to wish for mathematically impossible things :-) I find myself doing that often enough when I sit down to assess the previous night's session in preparation for writing my next blog post. I'm always happiest when my previous session was exceptional in some way. What I'm secretly hoping for is that all my sessions will be exceptional, which of course is mathematically impossible.

Getting the session onto the front page of an all time list of some kind is my litmus test for deeming it exceptional. Last night's session happily obliges. Its session delta of $151,000 puts it in 19th place on that particular list.

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

 45000      5000           6        16     3        0
 45000      5000           6        35     1   175500
 45000      5000           6        20     4        0
 45000      5000           6        40     1   175500

delta: $151,000
tournament balance: $2,160,840
balance: $9,043,539