The golden ratio is obsolete

For many years, I was obsessed with the concept of a poker golden ratio. I originally came up with it while playing cash games, and soon saw that the golden ratio for cash games was 2. That is, if you can achieve twice as many winning sessions as losing ones, you'll essentially be printing money. I soured on cash games over two years ago, and have since played tournaments exclusively. For tournaments, there is no golden ratio; you can bat well below .500 and still make a killing. That's just the way I like it :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6     8      59   12    43        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    29      51   12    37        0
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6   121      61   12    11    68000

delta: $-232,000
MTT 8-game balance: $381,170
2019 balance: $1,969,250
balance: $48,553,510