Shopping horror

I played six sit and gos last night, and didn't make the money once. I can accept the results of the first five tournaments with equanimity. The sixth tournament was torture, however. I was doing really well, right up to the point when my internet connection went south. Every time I tried to reconnect, it stayed up for only a couple of seconds before getting dropped again. The consequence was that I got blinded out of the tournament, bubbling in 8th place. That hurt!

I think I've figured out what the problem was. The day after Christmas has become as big an online shopping day as Cyber Monday. I don't know if they've come up with a name for this day yet, but they probably should. My guess is all that online shopping activity used up so much internet capacity that it seriously affected my PokerStars internet connection. It just felt so unfair to miss the money through not being able to communicate with the PokerStars servers. Shopping horror!

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   8-Game   9000  1000       6    52     5        0

buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

  9000  1000       9    21      45    7    12        0
  9000  1000       9    46      18    4     8        0
  9000  1000       6    45       6    2     4        0
  9000  1000       9    41      18    4     6        0
  9000  1000       9    17      45    7     8        0

delta: $-60,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,451,900
balance: $10,347,764