How to lose a million in five easy lessons

The title of this post is tongue in cheek, of course. No one wants to take a course in how to lose money. For that matter, anyone who wants to lose money can easily do it, without need of instruction. I simply wanted to come up with a humorous way to summarize my last five sessions. Like clockwork, I lost $200,000 each time.

This is an excerpt from my July 8, 2020 post. It's my go to angle whenever I've been tossed off the train five times in a row. What I should have added is that only one lesson is needed to lose any amount you can think of, and even some you can't :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      64   18    36        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,501,768
2021 balance: $180,000
blue distance: $1,335,900
balance: $77,845,453

How to lose a million in five easy lessons

This is the second time I've used this blog post title; the first was on July 8 of this year. Here's an excerpt of what I had to say:

The title of this post is tongue in cheek, of course. No one wants to take a course in how to lose money. For that matter, anyone who wants to lose money can easily do it, without need of instruction. I simply wanted to come up with a humorous way to summarize my last five sessions. Like clockwork, I lost $200,000 each time.

I made it to station 2 last night, largely due to winning a huge pot early on with a set of jacks. I'm hoping to make it to station 3 tonight.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      55   15    27        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $21,961,668
2020 balance: $14,739,343
blue distance: $2,530,000
balance: $76,547,353

How to lose a million in five easy lessons

The title of this post is tongue in cheek, of course. No one wants to take a course in how to lose money. For that matter, anyone who wants to lose money can easily do it, without need of instruction. I simply wanted to come up with a humorous way to summarize my last five sessions. Like clockwork, I lost $200,000 each time. On my final hand of last night's session, I was short-stacked and was dealt snowmen (pocket eights). I shoved and got two callers. One of them had been dealt QJo (queen jack offsuit), and paired his jack on the flop. His jacks held up. My percentile was an anemic 54.78, but at least I outlasted the late registration period :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6     115   30    52        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $20,487,668
2020 balance: $13,265,343
balance: $75,073,353