Fatal improvement

It's generally a good thing to improve your hand. On the flop, indubitably. On the turn, certainly. On the river? Not always so much. The problem with improving your hand on the river is that it may have improved your opponent's hand even more. Of course, that's true on any street, but it just seems truer on the river. Last night, in the 8-game tournament I played, I hit the rail on a hand with a fatal river improvement. The river card was the nine of hearts; it improved my hand to a set of nines, but improved my opponent's hand to a queen high straight. Ouch!

In happier news, I finally stopped the bitch and had a profitable session.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    45000  5000       6     8      34    9     0        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    87      84   18    16   431000

delta: $131,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $37,924,500
2018 balance: $4,658,000
balance: $50,171,260