Bookends

The two most memorable hands of Sunday night's session were the first and last. Straight out of the gate, I was dealt the ace and king of hearts. I put in a preflop raise and got a couple of callers. I whiffed on the flop but made a continuation bet. The turn and river both bricked out, and when the smoke had cleared I'd lost roughly half my stack. On the final hand, I was dealt the king and queen of spades, had a flush draw after the turn, and called a bet that put me all in. The river was a brick, and I was gone. The only consolation? I outlasted the late registration period :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      76   21    42        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $20,830,668
2020 balance: $13,608,343
balance: $75,416,353

Bookends

Last night, my first and last hands were matching bookends - in each, I lost all my chips. In between those two failed all ins, I had four successful ones. In two of those, I was dealt pocket jacks. Baby cowboys rule :-)

After a hiatus of 13 tournaments, I made it back under the lights. I'll try to make it two in a row tonight.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    98      69   15     7   700000

delta: $450,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $39,579,500
2018 balance: $5,856,000
balance: $51,369,260

Bookends

Last night, I hit the felt on the 7th hand when my pair of aces lost to a king high flush. The thing is, I don't think I misplayed the hand; I was dealt a big slick, and called a big preflop raise. Before the flop, my hand was a 71% favorite; after the flop, it was a coin flip. Given another chance, I'd still play the hand the same way.

I reupped at the same table for the max. Six hands later, I won back all the chips I'd lost, most of them coming from the player I'd lost them to. Looking at the bar chart of my stack size over time, the starting balance of hand 7 and the ending balance of hand 13 are bookends.

On the peevish front, an old deficiency in the PokerStars software came back to bite me. Once again, I clicked the "Clear" button on the stats tab by mistake, and so lost my session stats. Of course, I could recalculate them from the hand histories, but right now that's too much work. I've said it before and I'll say it again - that "Clear" button is utterly misguided. I don't know why anyone would ever want to click it. At the very least, the software should throw up an "Are you sure?" dialog box before just blowing away all the session stats. Harrumph!

hands played: 61

delta: $14,700
balance: $2,629,582