Dredging the session for a silver lining

I find mediocre sessions the hardest ones to write about, whether they were winning or losing. If they were winning, I often struggle to find anything exciting, new, or relevant to say. If they were losing, I often struggle to come up with a silver lining to highlight. When I'm really stuck for a silver lining, I have to resort to finding some inconsequential statistical factoid to try to prove that my session was worth more than a bucket of warm spit :)

Yesterday's session was both mediocre and losing. Here's the statistical factoid I found: in each of the tournaments I entered, I managed to achieve a percentile of at least 50. That bucket of warm spit is looking better and better :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     234   63    96        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     385   99    77    91000
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     258   72   108        0

delta: $-59,000
2024 balance: $3,196,000
2024 blue distance: $66,000
balance: $16,005,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.56 (1223 of 2943)