Ladder boy

One of the best skills you can have in tournament poker is the ability to ladder up. That's when the money bubble has burst, and you manage to outlast opponents with bigger stacks than yours, thereby increasing your payout. There are few more satisfying things in poker than laddering up.

This is an excerpt from my June 5, 2020 post. Last night, I laddered up significantly in the third tournament I entered, narrowly missing making the final table. Not too shabby, since I had been Caboose Boy at one point. My extrapolated profit for the year just crossed the four million dollar boundary. Poker life is good :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     354   99    40   127000
MTT   NLHE    88000  12000       9     309   81   188        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     267   72    12   195000

delta: $122,000
2024 balance: $3,077,000
2024 blue distance: $0
balance: $15,886,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.49 (1209 of 2914)