Blue counts by year

Nothing too interesting happened in last night's session, so I decided I'd write about a poker statistic instead. The one I picked is blue count. Within any particular window of observation, the blue count is the number of sessions where one's overall balance reaches a new all-time high. Here are my blue counts by year:

2009: 14 of 128 (0.109375)
2010: 29 of 208 (0.139423)
2011: 79 of 253 (0.312253)
2012: 67 of 298 (0.224832)
2013: 25 of 311 (0.080386)
2014: 31 of 280 (0.110714)
2015:  5 of 275 (0.018182)
2016: 19 of 303 (0.062706)
2017: 34 of 266 (0.127820)

Anything over 10% is pretty darn good.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000  6000       9    44     168   36    17   106600
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    74      51   12    20        0

delta: $-143,400
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $30,586,500
2017 balance: $30,949,055
balance: $42,366,885

Blue counts by year

Although I'm greatly relieved to have been able to preserve my streak of profitable poker years (barring some sort of calamitous collapse in my final 12 sessions of 2015), there's a very sobering number staring me in the face - my 2015 blue count, especially when considered in relation to my blue counts of previous years. As a refresher, a session where my overall balance achieves a new all-time high is a blue session. The blue count of a session is either 0 or 1 - 0 if the session was not a blue session, and 1 if it was. The blue count of a poker year is the number of blue sessions achieved in that year. Here are my blue counts by year so far:

2009: 14 of 128 (0.109375)
2010: 29 of 208 (0.139423)
2011: 79 of 253 (0.312253)
2012: 67 of 298 (0.224832)
2013: 25 of 311 (0.080386)
2014: 31 of 280 (0.110714)
2015:  2 of 263 (0.007605)

Less than 1 percent of my 2015 sessions have been blue. That's a number I intend to better in 2016.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE     9000  1000       6    77     2    18900
SNG   NLHE     9000  1000       6    29     1    35100
SNG   NLHE     9000  1000       6    43     4        0
SNG   NLHE     9000  1000       6    49     1    35100

delta: $49,100
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,444,675
balance: $10,225,039