The 39 steps

This is the second time I've used this blog post title; the first was on July 26th of last year. Again, I'm echoing the title of a classic Alfred Hitchcock movie. This time, however, instead of referring to the number of hands in a session, I'm referring to the number of hands which were needed to get to the first elimination in the first sit and go no limit hold'em tournament I played last night. It's quite an astonishing number. It bested the previous record, set in a tournament I played in 2012, by 3 hands. Just for some perspective, the average number of hands it takes to get to the first elimination in a sit and go no limit hold'em tournament is 9.18.

Sometimes, when all the players at a table are highly skilled, poker rises to the level of performance art. In such cases, everyone is contributing to the creation of something which no one could have created on their own. At the height of the art, the other players are no longer your opponents, but your collaborators :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    59     120   24    29        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    93       6    2     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    67       6    2     2    94500
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    47      81   18    25        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    46       6    2     1   175500
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    29       6    2     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    86       6    2     2    94500

delta: $104,500
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,504,300
balance: $10,393,264