Doppelsession

Last night's session was almost a carbon copy of the one before it, giving rise to another neostreet neologism (or neo neo for short :-) -- doppelsession.

This is an excerpt from my September 10, 2010 post. Tuesday's session was a doppelsession of Monday's. I made a decent profit the hard way, missing the money in the first tournament, but making up for it in the second. Since Monday's session got my overall balance into the blue, Tuesday's kept it there. Here's hoping for a threepeat :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     276   72   160        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     355   81    36   147000

delta: $47,000
2024 balance: $3,912,000
2024 blue distance: $0
balance: $16,721,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.73 (1271 of 3046)

Doppelsession

On Sunday night, I had a virtual repeat of the night before. I played two tournaments with a 5 million dollar buy in, missed the money in the first, and made the money in the second. As before, the profit I made on the second narrowly missed covering the loss I incurred on the first. I would have been in great shape had I but had the foresight to skip the first :-)

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT-B NLHE   4400000   600000       8     306   41   110         0
MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     137   23    17   9150000

delta: $-850,000
MTT NLHE balance: $113,461,468
2022 balance: $46,398,000
blue distance: $11,540,000
balance: $141,241,953

Doppelsession

Wednesday night's session was almost a carbon copy of Tuesday night's. Once again, I played a Hot 50K.  Once again, I fired two bullets. Once again, I outlasted over 74% of the field. Once again, I failed to make the money. As they say, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       8     427   71   107        0

delta: $-100,000
MTT NLHE balance: $43,651,468
2022 balance: $-2,121,070
blue distance: $4,223,060
balance: $92,722,883

Doppelsession

Last night's session was nearly a carbon copy of the one before. I made the money, but bubbled the first money jump. The most memorable hand was the one where I'd been dealt KTo (king ten offsuit), paired my king on the flop, and refused to be bullied into folding by a bigger stack. He turned over K3o (king three offsuit) at showdown, and I won a nice pot.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      64   18    16   278000

delta: $78,000
MTT NLHE balance: $33,119,768
2021 balance: $9,698,000
blue distance: $1,289,000
balance: $87,363,453

Doppelsession

The most memorable thing about last night's session was that it was almost a carbon copy of the one before it. I hit the 67th percentile in both, and was within shouting distance of making the money. Not much to shout about, unfortunately :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      90   21    29        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $24,195,668
2020 balance: $16,773,343
blue distance: $600,000
balance: $78,581,353

Doppelsession

Last night's session was a dead ringer of Sunday night's. Not only was the number of entries the same, my finishing place was the same. Not only that, finishing 7th or better would have returned my overall balance to the blue, just as it would have in Sunday's tournament. You can't make this shit up :-) I've decided to add blue distance to my daily stats. As a refresher, my goal is to get my blue distance to zero as often as I can.

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      75   21    10   417000

delta: $217,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,218,668
2020 balance: $15,996,343
blue distance: $166,000
balance: $77,804,353

Doppelsession

Last night's session was a doppelsession; the results were almost identical to those of the night before. In terms of money places, the results were identical - no firsts, and one second, in six sit and gos played. If I keep duplicating this dubious "feat", my bankroll will hit 0 in 82 more sessions :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    47     4        0
SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    59     2    47250
SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    30     6        0
SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    32     5        0
SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    52     3        0
SNG   NLHE    22500  2500       6    47     3        0

delta: $-102,750
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,203,200
balance: $8,422,272

Doppelsession

Last night's session was a doppelsession of the one before it. I entered the regularly scheduled 9:42 pm MTT 8-game, failed to make the money in it, then entered a $50,000 sit and go 8-game where I ended up in fourth after a lengthy run. I can't help but feel I'm overdue to make some dough :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6        45    52        0
 45000      5000           6        93     4        0

delta: $-55,000
Sit and go 8-game balance: $231,810
balance: $9,438,390

Ending on an up note

Last night, I played quite well for 50 or so hands, but then got impatient and hit the felt when I inexplicably called a big bet on the flop with nothing but an ace high. After two more cards, I still only had an ace high, and lost to a pair of queens. One mitigating factor was that my hole cards were both overcards to the board at the flop; my real mistake was calling the big bet on the turn, now that I think about it. That last call put me all in; there was no way I should have called without so much as a pair.

Since this is my second post of the night, due to the Blogger outage, it's enabled me to notice something I might not have noticed before - namely, that both of the last two nights, I hit the felt in an eerily similar fashion. Both times, I went all in when I had no business doing so, and my stack sizes were almost identical at the start of the fateful hands: $27,500 on Wednesday night, and $27,900 last night. This may be an indication that I start to get dangerously impatient when my stack dips below 75% of its original amount. I dubbed this "stack tilt" in an earlier post, and I'm surprised to see it crop up again; I thought I was all over such nonsense.

As I did on Wednesday night, I reupped at the same table for the maximum starting amount. This time, I had better luck, and managed to win back a good chunk of what I'd lost. Both nights ended in a similar fashion - with me calling it quits after winning a nice pot. Last night, the pot was worth $33,284, an amount very similar to that of the session-ending Wednesday night pot. I wouldn't exactly call last night a Doppelsession, but it was pretty close!

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 82 hands and saw flop:
- 7 out of 11 times while in big blind (63%)
- 7 out of 12 times while in small blind (58%)
- 41 out of 59 times in other positions (69%)
- a total of 55 out of 82 (67%)
Pots won at showdown - 3 of 13 (23%)
Pots won without showdown - 7

delta: $-15,124
balance: $1,612,493

Second doppelsession

Last Thursday night's session was like deja vu all over again (to steal a saying from Yogi Berra). Just like the previous night, I had another 30 hand session where I only won 2 hands but still had a nice gain; here are the stats:

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 30 hands and saw flop:
- 4 out of 4 times while in big blind (100%)
- 1 out of 4 times while in small blind (25%)
- 13 out of 22 times in other positions (59%)
- a total of 18 out of 30 (60%)
Pots won at showdown - 1 of 2 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

Though I didn't specify this explicitly when I first defined doppelsession, I'll now refine the definition to include the requirement that the sessions be back to back. I've now had at least two doppelsessions.

delta: $16,700
balance: $855,231

Doppelsession

Last night's session was almost a carbon copy of the one before it, giving rise to another neostreet neologism (or neo neo for short :-) -- doppelsession. My winning hands were a two pair, two three of a kinds, and a full house.

During current Stud session you were dealt 26 hands and:
- saw fourth street 26 times (100%)
- saw fifth street 21 times (80%)
- saw sixth street 17 times (65%)
- reached showdown 8 times (30%)
Pots won at showdown - 4 of 8 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 0

delta: $760
balance: $1,039,778