Nell mezzo del cammin

I first used this blog post title on November 26, 2013. Here's an excerpt of what I had to say:

I've only read bits and pieces of Dante's Inferno, but some lines have remained with me ... Here's the first:

Nell mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

In Allen Mandelbaum's translation: "When I had journeyed half of our life's way". ... Literally, "nell mezzo del cammin" means "in the middle of the road".

Thursday night, in the middle of the only tournament I entered, I was dealt pocket kings. They matured to a set of kings on the flop, held up, and gave me my biggest hand delta of the night - 4,650 chips. Unfortunately, things went south from that point, and I failed to make the money. Still and all, I'll take a set of kings in the middle of a tournament any day :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    44      80   18    29        0

delta: $-150,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $32,645,500
2018 balance: $-736,000
balance: $44,777,260