Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Return of the reclusive massive

As you may know, my favorite poker style is MTT, my favorite poker flavor is NLHE, and my favorite size of MTT NLHE is massive :-) My original definition of massive was a tournament where the buy in plus the entry fee was $1,000. In 2015 and 2016, PokerStars ran these tournaments regularly, and they regularly attracted massive fields - often exceeding 1,000 entrants. In September of 2016, these tournaments disappeared from the landscape for some reason. Last night, I played in a tournament with a huge number of entrants, but it had a much larger buy in plus entry fee - $20,000. I've decided to update my definition of massive to be a tournament where the number of entrants is greater than or equal to 1,000. By this new definition, last night I played in my first massive since September 28th of last year. I just ran the numbers, and it turns out I make the money in massives at a really decent clip - 44% of the time. Too bad they don't appear more regularly!

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6   122    1374  336    37    91300
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    64     429  114    77    36700


delta: $88,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,211,948
2017 balance: $133,925
balance: $11,551,755

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