Back to the dime

Last night, I had a monster cash game. It was the second most profitable one of my career, out of the 878 I've played. It brought me back to the dime - my career balance once again tops 10 million play dollars. This was my 15th crossing of that boundary, and the 8th in the ascending direction. This got me curious about all my other million boundary crossings, so I wrote a utility to calculate them; here are the results:

 7  $1,000,000
 1  $2,000,000
 1  $3,000,000
 1  $4,000,000
 5  $5,000,000
 3  $6,000,000
 5  $7,000,000
 5  $8,000,000
17  $9,000,000
15 $10,000,000
 2 $11,000,000
 4 $12,000,000

If I keep playing like this, I might be able to leave the dime in my rearview mirror :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 56 hands and saw flop:
 - 4 out of 7 times while in big blind (57%)
 - 4 out of 7 times while in small blind (57%)
 - 15 out of 42 times in other positions (35%)
 - a total of 23 out of 56 (41%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 6 (83%)
 Pots won without showdown - 3

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE     4350   650       9    17     100   27    44        0
MTT   NLHE     4350   650       6     5     147   36     0        0
MTT   NLHE     4350   650       9    13      75   15    43        0
KO    NLHE     4350   650       9    39     196   45    26     6420

delta: $207,897
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $5,969,813
balance: $10,056,655

Back to the dime

On the strength of a first place finish in a $45,000 buy in sit and go 8-game, I was able to push my balance over the $10,000,000 mark again. Back to the dime! I'm determined to finish the 2015 poker year above that milestone.

Out of curiosity, I decided to aggregate the hand deltas from my first place sit and go 8-game finishes by poker flavor. The results weren't quite what I expected :-) Here they are:

     36358 Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit
     16833 Hold'em Limit
     25374 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit
     20346 Razz Limit
     12861 7 Card Stud Limit
     22379 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit
      6585 Hold'em No Limit
      9264 Omaha Pot Limit

I was surprised to see such a low total for no limit hold'em and pot limit Omaha. Since my sample size is small (20 first place finishes so far), no real conclusions can be drawn from this data. As I accumulate more data, I'll keep an eye on these aggregates.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   8-Game  45000  5000       6    74     1   175500
SNG   8-Game   9000  1000       6    68     4        0

delta: $115,500
Sit and go 8-game balance: $439,310
balance: $10,044,464

Back to the dime

On July 4th of last year, my overall balance topped 10 million play dollars for the first time. For shorthand, let's call that amount the dime :-) On August 31 of last year, my balance fell below the dime. On May 1st of this year, my balance fell below 9 million play dollars. On May 2nd, I switched from cash games to sit and gos. On May 11th, my balance topped 9 million play dollars again. Last night, I got back to the dime. It's good to be back :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    48     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    70     3        0
 90000 10000       6    69     2   189000

delta: $78,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,334,800
balance: $10,021,379