Another fingerfehler

Playing sit and gos is challenging enough without making the challenge harder by accidentally selecting a tournament you didn't mean to. Since selections are made by mouse clicks, and since mice are manipulated by fingers, I call mistaken tournament selections fingerfehlers. My most egregious fingerfehler was the time I mistakenly selected a $900,000 buy in tournament when I thought I was selecting one with a $22,500 buy in. Since there was an accompanying $100,000 entry fee, and I didn't make the money, that was a $1,000,000 fingerfehler.

Last night, I had another fingerfehler, but it wasn't nearly as costly. This time, the tournament I selected had the desired buy in of $45,000, but by mistake I chose a hyper tournament instead of a turbo one. In a hyper tournament, everyone starts out starved for chips, so the tournament has a much shorter duration, and luck plays a significantly larger part. Hyper tournaments typically give each player a starting stack of $500, whereas turbo tournaments typically give each player a starting stack of $1,000. Not surprisingly, the hyper tournament had the shortest duration (12 hands) of the five tournaments I played.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    32     4        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    12     4        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    70     2    94500
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    38     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    74     2    94500

delta: $-61,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $121,200
balance: $7,201,664