A simple plan

I'm stealing the title of a 1998 movie for this blog post. As "A Simple Plan" made abundantly clear, nothing is as simple as it seems.

This is an excerpt from my March 11, 2017 post. Here's my simple, three step plan for making the money in a PokerStars Valueraptor:

1. join as late as possible

2. extract the maximum value from your premium hands

3. get dealt two premium hands

As you might have guessed, step 3 is the hard one :-) Last night, all three steps happened. The first premium hand was rockets, and the second was cowboys. The way to extract the most value from premium hands is to call on early streets, and shove on the river. The two big boosts to my stack enabled me to fold my way into the money easily.

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     143   23    15   9550000

delta: $4,550,000
MTT NLHE balance: $245,061,468
2022 balance: $171,697,000
blue distance: $0
balance: $266,540,953