$50,000 fingerfehler

I figured out a long time ago that it's really important always to pick the same buy in level when playing sit and gos; if you don't adhere to this, you're playing an apples and oranges game where losses can be disproportionately large. Unfortunately, this strategy can't prevent the occasional fingerfehler. That is, when trying to pick a sit and go to play, occasionally you'll pick the wrong buy in level by mistake. This happened to me last night, and I know exactly how it happened. As I've mentioned before, you want to stay away from hyper sit and gos like the plague, and only play the turbos. So when scanning the available sit and gos, you're looking for two things:

1. the correct buy in level
2. a turbo tournament

When you order the tournaments by buy in level, and have scrolled to the appropriate section of the lobby, you're mainly focusing at this point on hyper vs. turbo. When you find a turbo, if you forget to check the buy in level before selecting it, you could end up picking a turbo from the next higher or next lower buy in level by mistake. Last night, when selecting my first sit and go, I mistakenly chose a turbo with a $90,000 buy in and $10,000 entry fee, instead of one with my normal $45,000 buy in and $5,000 entry fee. I came in fifth in that one, so my fingerfehler ending up costing me $50,000. Ouch!

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6     6     5        0
 45000  5000       6    55     2    94500
 45000  5000       6    45     3        0
 45000  5000       6    28     5        0
 45000  5000       6    81     1   175500

delta: $-30,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,576,800
balance: $9,263,379