Feeling like Conan

The movie "Conan the Barbarian" came out in 1982, thirty-seven years ago. I went to see it when it came out, and one particular montage has stuck with me all these years. Conan begins the movie as a small boy, who has become enslaved after the murder of his parents. He is set to work in a flour mill, which is manned by many slaves who push the spokes of a huge wheel which powers the grindstone. To show the passage of time, and also to show how big and strong Conan becomes, you see less and less slaves pushing the spokes over the years, until finally it's just Conan pushing, powering the mill all by himself.

I find this an apt metaphor for making a deep run in a poker tournament. When it begins, you're just one of many players, with a tiny stack. As time goes by, your stack grows and the number of remaining players shrinks. If you make it all the way, there's only you left, and you have all the chips :-)

This is an excerpt from my June 12, 2019 post. Yesterday, I felt like Conan again :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     250   63    69        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     365   99     5   472000

delta: $372,000
2024 balance: $3,560,000
2024 blue distance: $0
balance: $16,369,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.66 (1258 of 3020)

Feeling like Conan

The movie "Conan the Barbarian" came out in 1982, thirty-seven years ago. I went to see it when it came out, and one particular montage has stuck with me all these years. Conan begins the movie as a small boy, who has become enslaved after the murder of his parents. He is set to work in a flour mill, which is manned by many slaves who push the spokes of a huge wheel which powers the grindstone. To show the passage of time, and also to show how big and strong Conan becomes, you see less and less slaves pushing the spokes over the years, until finally it's just Conan pushing, powering the mill all by himself.

I find this an apt metaphor for making a deep run in a poker tournament. When it begins, you're just one of many players, with a tiny stack. As time goes by, your stack grows and the number of remaining players shrinks. If you make it all the way, there's only you left, and you have all the chips :-)

This is an excerpt from my June 12, 2019 post.  Last night, I made it all the way. Station 5, baby!

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      64   18     1  1710000

delta: $1,510,000
MTT NLHE balance: $41,219,968
2022 balance: $-3,002,300
blue distance: $3,019,500
balance: $91,841,653

Feeling like Conan

The movie "Conan the Barbarian" came out in 1982, thirty-seven years ago. I went to see it when it came out, and one particular montage has stuck with me all these years. Conan begins the movie as a small boy, who has become enslaved after the murder of his parents. He is set to work in a flour mill, which is manned by many slaves who push the spokes of a huge wheel which powers the grindstone. To show the passage of time, and also to show how big and strong Conan becomes, you see less and less slaves pushing the spokes over the years, until finally it's just Conan pushing, powering the mill all by himself.

I find this an apt metaphor for making a deep run in a poker tournament. When it begins, you're just one of many players, with a tiny stack. As time goes by, your stack grows and the number of remaining players shrinks. If you make it all the way, there's only you left, and you have all the chips :-)

Last night, for a change of pace, I played an MTT 8-game tournament. I didn't quite get to the point of powering the mill all by myself, but I sure was feeling like Conan :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6   143      56   12     2   459000

delta: $409,000
MTT 8-game balance: $837,170
2019 balance: $12,734,250
balance: $59,318,510