A month by the lake

Poker is the most relaxing thing I know how to do. Whenever I play it, I'm on vacation. I feel like I'm sitting in an Adirondack chair, with a beer on a table beside me and a novel in my hands, on the shore of a beautiful lake. I just want to stay there and never leave :-)

This is an excerpt from my November 14, 2019 post. Since I don't have anything exciting to report from yesterday's session, I've decided to find something positive in my recent data, in the aggregate. Here it is: I've had more than a month by the lake without a 0th place. As a refresher, a 0th place is what I "award" myself with whenever I hit the rail before the late registration period of a tournament has ended. In these cases, the PokerStars client displays a hyphen in the place column for the player who has been ousted, since it's unknown what the actual place for the player will be until the late registration period ends. Since I never rebuy, I consider my tournament over whenever I hit the rail.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     363   99   164        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     300   72   130        0

delta: $-100,000
2024 balance: $2,436,000
2024 blue distance: $859,000
balance: $15,245,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.40 (1234 of 2981)