Manufacturing a top ten

Data is a malleable thing. If you're perseverant enough, you can get it to say almost anything you want. On Friday night, I knew I'd played a lot of hands, to very little effect. That made me curious to find out where the session stood in that regard. I decided to focus only on losing sessions, or more specifically, on non-winning sessions, since I've had one session where I broke even. Friday's session only made it to number 22 on that list. Not very exciting. Then I decided to further filter my search to only the sessions where I'd played 200 or more hands. Using the modified criteria, Friday's session made it to number 5 on that list. Bingo! Yet another (albeit manufactured) top ten :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6   126     139   36    16   118000
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    62     488  114   168        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    38      60   15     -        0

delta: $-2,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,832,648
2017 balance: $754,625
balance: $12,172,455