A pox of cracked pocks

"Pocks" is poker slang for a pocket pair. When pocket pairs fail to win, they're said to have been cracked. Last night, I had a pox of cracked pocks, resulting in a sizeable loss. Here are the lowlights:

- in the first tournament I entered, I hit the rail when my cowboys (pocket kings) ran into rockets (pocket aces)

- in the second, my stack was crippled when I had cowboys again; I flopped a set, but lost to a rivered flush

- in the third, my stack was crippled when my rockets lost to a rivered set

- on my final hand of the night, my pocket eights lost to flopped trip sixes

Can I just say "Ouch"? :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       9     191   45     -        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6     178   48     -        0
MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6     146   36     -        0

delta: $-300,000
MTT NLHE balance: $8,904,668
2020 balance: $1,882,343
balance: $63,690,353