Thursday, April 14, 2016

A hasty selection

The sit and go selection process on PokerStars leaves a fair amount to be desired. The different buy in levels all appear on the same scrollable list. Although the list is ordered by buy in level, it's fairly easy to select the wrong one every now and then when you're also focused on selecting a Turbo instead of a Hyper. This happened to me when I was selecting my second sit and go last night. When I saw a Turbo that already had five players registered, I hurriedly joined it without noticing that it had a $4,400 buy in, as opposed to my normal buy in of $44,000. Since I came in second, this simple mistake ended up costing me $45,000. Ouch!

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 44000  6000       6    39     5        0
  4400   600       6    89     2     9240


delta: $-99,520
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $3,803,000
balance: $11,840,674

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