Three on a match

I used this blog post title once before, on November 20, 2012. Here's a brief excerpt of what I had to say:

The old superstition about three on a match has its poker analogue; you really don't want to be the third one going in to a huge pot.

Back then, I was playing cash games, but this advice applies equally well to tournaments.

This is an except from my October 12, 2020 post. Excerpts are fractal :-) Last night, on a hand where I was dealt rockets, I decided to be the third one in. That put me all in. I hoped my opponents would have hands which sabotaged each other, and they did :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      78   21    18   339000

delta: $139,000
MTT NLHE balance: $26,932,768
2021 balance: $3,611,000
blue distance: $61,000
balance: $81,276,453