Shot from guns

An incontrovertible proof of my advancing age, aside from more wrinkles and more gray hair, is the fact that as time goes by, I'm in an ever diminishing pool of people who can remember advertising slogans from sufficiently long ago. One which sticks in my mind is "Shot from guns". This was an ad campaign for a cereal. I confess I had to google the slogan just now to make sure I got the brand right; it was Quaker Puffed Rice.

Can the slogan be applied to poker? Easily. It means that it's a good thing to come out of the starting gate quickly ...

This is an excerpt from my January 9, 2014 post. Last night, in the second tournament I played, I was shot from guns. On my first hand, I was dealt the jack of clubs and another club (I forget the denomination), and flopped a flush. I won a decent pot and was off to the races :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     401   99   189        0
MTT   NLHE    88000  12000       9     311   81    37   246000

delta: $96,000
2024 balance: $2,581,000
2024 blue distance: $0
balance: $15,390,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.39 (1201 of 2902)