Baby cowboys into the sunset

"Baby cowboys" is my nickname for pocket jacks. Last night, my baby cowboys rode off into the sunset. Although that makes for a good movie ending, it's not what you're hoping for when playing poker.

This is an excerpt from my April 4, 2022 post. In the one tournament I played yesterday, I only lasted 10 hands. I had one premium hand dealt to me, baby cowboys. Unfortunately for me, it was on the tenth hand. Whatcha gonna do?

style flavor    buy_in  entry entries paid place winnings hands

MTT   NLHE       44000   6000     248   63   137        0    10

delta: $-50,000
2025 balance: $-997,000
2025 blue distance: $997,000
balance: $15,300,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.41 (1306 of 3154)

Baby cowboys into the sunset

"Baby cowboys" is my nickname for pocket jacks. Last night, my baby cowboys rode off into the sunset. Although that makes for a good movie ending, it's not what you're hoping for when playing poker. I lost to a rivered magic flush. As a reminder, a magic flush is when the board has four cards to a flush, and a player with one card of the magic flush suit wins the hand. It always hurts to get magic flushed. It hurts even more when you get magic flushed straight out of a tournament. Having failed to make the money in 4 of the 5 "Hot 50K, 10M Chips Gtd" tournaments I've played, I'm going to play a Bankroll Builder tonight for a change of pace.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       8     463   79   122        0

delta: $-50,000
MTT NLHE balance: $44,278,968
2022 balance: $56,700
blue distance: $200,000
balance: $94,900,653

Baby cowboys into the sunset

Baby cowboys is my nickname for pocket jacks. Last night, my baby cowboys rode off into the sunset when I went to showdown against two opponents. In general, the more players that go to showdown, the worse your odds are of winning the hand. When you're short-stacked, though, you don't have the luxury of avoiding showdowns with multiple opponents.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      64   18    37        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $34,010,768
2021 balance: $10,589,000
blue distance: $398,000
balance: $88,254,453