Carddeadburgh

Last post, I defined Sanityville and Crazytown. I neglected to mention Carddeadburgh, but that's another place you may find yourself travelling in the course of an MTT. If you're lucky, you go right through it and come out the other side. If you're not, Carddeadburgh will end your tournament in a New York minute.

This is an excerpt from my January 5, 2015 post. Last night, I couldn't get out of Carddeadburgh. I don't think I won a single hand. Hey, it happens :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      61   18    35        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $40,992,368
2021 balance: $15,520,600
blue distance: $200,000
balance: $93,186,053

Carddeadburgh

Last post, I defined Sanityville and Crazytown. I neglected to mention Carddeadburgh, but that's another place you may find yourself travelling in the course of an MTT. If you're lucky, you go right through it and come out the other side. If you're not, Carddeadburgh will end your tournament in a New York minute.

This is an excerpt from my January 5, 2015 post. Last night, I failed to make it out of Carddeadburgh. On my final hand, I was dealt pocket fives and shoved. I got one caller, who turned over Q8o (queen eight offsuit). I was a slight favorite, having a 54.21% chance of winning the hand. However, my opponent paired his eight on the flop, and I bricked on the turn and river. Whatcha gonna do?

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      80   21    28        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $33,875,768
2021 balance: $10,454,000
blue distance: $533,000
balance: $88,119,453

Carddeadburgh

Last post, I defined Sanityville and Crazytown. I neglected to mention Carddeadburgh, but that's another place you may find yourself travelling in the course of an MTT. If you're lucky, you go right through it and come out the other side. If you're not, Carddeadburgh will end your tournament in a New York minute. That's exactly what happened to me on Saturday night. There's precious little you can do when you're card dead in a tournament; you're unlikely to be able to bluff players off better hands, and you can't afford to fold everything, since the blinds will eat you up. You're essentially forced to back marginal hands, and fold them when they don't pan out. The moral of the story: Sanityville isn't guaranteed to take you all the way to Crazytown if you have to pass through Carddeadburgh first :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        80    25        0

delta: $-5,000
MTT 8-game balance: $127,500
balance: $9,622,530