Successful failure

There are many kinds of success, and many kinds of failure. They all exist on the same spectrum. The good news about this is that when you fail, it's often the case that you didn't fail as badly as you might have done. Last night, I played three tournaments, and failed to make the money in any of them. That's certainly a failure. However, on the plus side, my percentiles were quite decent. That made me curious to see how last night's session compared to similar sessions. The findings:

- I've had 8 sessions in my career where I've played at least 3 MTT NLHEs and failed to make the money in any
- last night, my average percentile was 64.31
- that beats the average percentiles of 6 of the other 7 sessions, losing only to the 70.39 of my July 9, 2016 session

Successful failure like this is often a harbinger of success :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      88   21    29        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6     152   42    53        0
MTT   NLHE    87000 13000       6     107   24    42        0

delta: $-350,000
MTT NLHE balance: $9,495,668
2020 balance: $2,564,343
balance: $64,372,353