All in, my pretties

It's pretty much a given that in order to do well in an MTT, you're going to have to go all in at times. You need to keep your stack in a healthy state, and the only sure-fire way to do that is to double up at fairly regular intervals. The only way to double up is to go all in. In the final MTT I played last night, I got under the lights again. I got curious about the number of times I went all in. The answer: 9. That means I won 8 straight times I went all in. There are two prerequisites for achieving this:

1. only go all in on strong hands
2. have luck on your side

Here are my all in hands from that last MTT (the first column is the hand delta):

       572 6c 6h hand  25
       710 Qh Qc hand  39
       574 Qd Qs hand  61
      1488 Ks Ac hand  66
      2675 Td Ts hand  79
      1248 8d 8h hand 108
       608 Kh Ac hand 117
       608 Ks Kh hand 118
    -12734 Ac 3c hand 190

It sure looks like a "Who's Who" of premium hands to me :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    12     337   84     -        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    15     155   42    61        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6   190     143   36     6   296000

delta: $176,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,902,648
2017 balance: $824,625
balance: $12,242,455