Improbablue

Last night, my overall balance returned to the blue in a most improbable fashion, hence the title of this post :-) I'd already gotten under the lights, but was short-stacked. There were seven players left. At the start of hand 120, I was in seventh, with just 224 chips to my name. At this point, the ante was 600, so I fell in. Here were the remaining payouts:

1st   $3,235,000
2nd   $2,172,000
3rd   $1,644,000
4th   $1,115,000
5th     $822,000
6th     $616,000
7th     $499,000

The player in sixth was sitting out, which helped my cause a bit; the PokerStars software auto-folds a sitting out player's hand whenever someone else has made a bet and the action is on the sitting out player. That meant I had one less player to beat. I got lucky and ended up winning the main pot, even though the lion's share of that hand's chips were in a side pot. As a result, I was guaranteed at least 6th place money, since the sitting out player had hit the rail. I hit the rail myself the very next hand, but the non-damage had already been done :-) By laddering up one spot, I made an extra $117,000 in profit, and my overall balance was back in the blue. Sweet!

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9   121      48   12     6   616000

delta: $466,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $41,350,500
2018 balance: $7,627,000
balance: $53,140,260