S.O.S.

This is the third time I've used this blog post title. The first was on February 3, 2017. Here's an excerpt of what I had to say:

One of the hardest hands to lay down is a set, especially when the board doesn't support a straight, doesn't support a flush, and doesn't support a full house. In such a case, the only hand that can beat yours is a better set. That boils down to someone having been dealt a better pocket pair than yours. That situation is called "set over set". I call it S.O.S. for short :-)

Last night, I hit the rail on my final hand of the night on an S.O.S. I was dealt pocket nines and hit a set on the flop. I had an opponent who'd been dealt pocket tens dominated, but he spiked a ten on the river. Whatcha gonna do?

In other news, I've lost $925,000 in my last 5 sessions. Time to right the ship :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6     126   30    38        0
MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      62   18    24        0

delta: $-250,000
MTT NLHE balance: $8,736,668
2020 balance: $1,919,000
balance: $63,727,010