Sunday, December 31, 2017

Another personal borscht

On Friday night, I had another personal borscht. To refresh your memory, here's my definition (from the April 30, 2013 post):

There's a third kind of personal poker record that I also enjoy, but it's hard to come up with a name for it. It's neither a personal best nor a personal worst, yet shares features of both. At first I thought I'd call it a bestworst, then a worstbest, but neither of those really fit the bill. I eventually came up with personal borscht. Of course, that's a nonsensical name, but it has the merit that phonetically it reminds one of both best and worst. Also, borscht is a kind of soup, and this new kind of record is like soup in that it combines disparate elements.

This time, the record was for the most times I've ever gone all in in an MTT-R NLHE where I failed to make the money - 9. Here are the hand details:

delta  hole cards  hand

 2745     Jc Jh       8
-5025     Ad As      12
 2080     8c Ah      14
 4780     6c 6s      40
 3125     Ah 5s      45
 6625     Ac Ks      56
 4052     Kh Td      66
 5954     7h Tc      74
-6858     Ah Kc      76


Of course, it's easy enough to set this record if one plays like a maniac (as many of my opponents do); simply go all in every hand, and rebuy whenever you hit the felt. Interestingly, I didn't hit the felt on hand 12; when I went all in, I had more chips than my callers, and also won a small side pot.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    76      59   12    16        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    24      71   15    42        0


delta: $-300,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $32,192,500
2017 balance: $32,564,430
balance: $43,982,260

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