This is the second time I've used this blog post title. The first was almost exactly nine years ago, on October 1, 2010. This time, I'm referring to the downward direction of my overall balance. I've lost an aggregate of 1.5 million play dollars in the last five sessions, and my blue distance is now within whispering distance of 4 million. It's still a far cry from my personal worst blue distance of $11,578,000, set last December 21, but it's not insignificant. I need a load of apples coming in :-)
style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings
MTT NLHE 87000 13000 6 45 80 21 - 0
MTT-R NLHE 43500 6500 9 58 45 9 18 0
delta: $-350,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $47,743,000
2019 balance: $15,679,850
balance: $62,214,110
Showing posts with label backwards down the number line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backwards down the number line. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Friday, October 1, 2010
Backwards down the number line
The title of this post comes from a Phish song I like a lot. It describes what happened to my stack last night. I admit it, I went on tilt. It's been a while since the last time, but I don't kid myself that this time will be the last. Three things conspired to annoy me and put me on tilt:
1. at the first table I joined, one of the players was playing incredibly slowly, getting a time warning virtually every time the action was on him. I finally left in disgust.
2. shortly after I joined the second table, I discovered that the PokerStars software had hiccupped and removed the first 8 or so hands I'd played from the hand statistics. This has happened once or twice before, and it always ticks me off. I like stats, but need them to be accurate.
3. I'd been card dead most of the night, so when I flopped a pair of queens, I called all the bets down to showdown. I lost to pocket kings to hit the felt.
I should have called it a night right there, but was angry and joined another table. I quickly lost another $40K, for a grand total of just over $93K on the night. This wasn't my worst single session ever, but it does have the honor of being my third worst.
delta: -$93,050
balance: $870,687
1. at the first table I joined, one of the players was playing incredibly slowly, getting a time warning virtually every time the action was on him. I finally left in disgust.
2. shortly after I joined the second table, I discovered that the PokerStars software had hiccupped and removed the first 8 or so hands I'd played from the hand statistics. This has happened once or twice before, and it always ticks me off. I like stats, but need them to be accurate.
3. I'd been card dead most of the night, so when I flopped a pair of queens, I called all the bets down to showdown. I lost to pocket kings to hit the felt.
I should have called it a night right there, but was angry and joined another table. I quickly lost another $40K, for a grand total of just over $93K on the night. This wasn't my worst single session ever, but it does have the honor of being my third worst.
delta: -$93,050
balance: $870,687
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)