Friday, June 28, 2019

The pride tax

When you have success at poker, it's easy to feel proud of yourself. All too easy, as it turns out. If you're not on your guard, you'll quickly fall into the trap of believing you're better than you really are. Fortunately, poker has a solution for that :-) I call it the pride tax. Poker makes sure you never get too big for your britches by giving you a recurring diet of humbling experiences. What could be more humbling than not winning a single hand in a tournament? That's happened to me 40 times in rebuy tournaments. Almost as humbling is only winning a single hand. That's happened to me 90 times in rebuys, including Wednesday night's. These experiences are speaking loudly and cleary, and what they're saying is, "You may think you're good, and you may even be a little bit good, but you're not that good. Get over yourself!" :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    31      45    9    26        0


delta: $-200,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $46,621,000
2019 balance: $13,297,250
balance: $59,881,510

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