My 2016 poker year in review

Despite a wretched final poker session of 2016 last night, I made a decent profit on the year. More importantly, I proved to myself the long term viability of playing MTT no limit hold'em. It was the only style and flavor where I made a profit, truth be told; that profit more than offset the losses I incurred in all the other styles and flavors I tried, combined. No stronger endorsement for continuing to play it is needed :-)

2016 was the year when my deep-seated dislike of cash games really came to the fore. This dislike is ungracious, since the bulk of my career winnings have come from cash games, but it's there nonetheless. The practical result is that I won't play any more cash games until I've forgotten how much I dislike them :-)

2016 was also the year when I was forced to conclude, once and for all, that sit and gos are not profitable for me, and never will be. I'm sorry to see them go, since they're a ton of fun to play, but go they must.

2016 was also the year when I fully realized that 9 max poker has much more variance than I like, and that my game is much better suited to 6 max.

I'm looking forward to another fun, and profitable, poker year.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    11     154   42    69        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    10      77   21    40        0
MTT   NLHE    44000  6000       9    21     128   27    40        0
MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    32     448   90    75    20600
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    38      61   18    19        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    33      45   12     -        0

delta: $-249,400
MTT NLHE balance: $1,917,148
2016 balance: $717,466
balance: $11,417,830