An exaltation of aces

I had another stupendous result last night. Once again, I came in second in an MTT-R, this time for a profit of over 2 and a half million play dollars. This was due in no small part to my receiving from the poker gods an exaltation of aces. I got dealt pocket rockets four times in 161 hands, which is 5.49 times their normal frequency.

This is an excerpt from my June 14, 2017 post. Last night, I received another exaltation. In the second tournament I entered, I estimate I played about 60 hands (PokerStars no longer saves the hand histories for play money tournaments) and was dealt pocket rockets 3 times. That amounts to a frequency factor of 11. In other words, I was dealt rockets at a rate 11 times the expected rate. Turn the dial up to 11 :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     260   72   125        0
MTT   NLHE    88000  12000       9     164   45    20   216000

delta: $66,000
2024 balance: $2,880,000
2024 blue distance: $197,000
balance: $15,689,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.45 (1212 of 2924)