My kingdom for an orbit

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough chips for the blinds.

This is an excerpt from my January 13, 2017 post. I played three tournaments last night, and didn't make the money in any of them. My best chance was in the third one, but I fell one orbit short.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     352   99   194        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     193   54    89        0
MTT   NLHE    88000  12000       9     178   45    53        0

delta: $-200,000
2024 balance: $2,814,000
2024 blue distance: $263,000
balance: $15,623,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.44 (1211 of 2922)

My kingdom for an orbit

Last night, I narrowly missed making the money for the third straight tournament. I bubbled the bubble. I actually prefer bubbling the bubble to bubbling, since I don't feel as let down in that case. I know I played well, and just needed a smidgen more luck :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      52   15    17        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $32,716,768
2021 balance: $9,295,000
blue distance: $1,692,000
balance: $86,960,453

My kingdom for an orbit

By the time I finished writing last night's blog post, the midnight train had already left the station. Therefore, once again, I had to settle for a toy train. The good news about toy trains is that if you fail to make the money, you only lose a quarter of the money you would have lost with a midnight train. The bad news? If you make the money, you only gain a quarter of the money you would have gained with a midnight train. Given my druthers, I'd take the midnight train every single time.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000   5000       6      99   24    26        0

delta: $-50,000
MTT NLHE balance: $33,958,768
2021 balance: $10,537,000
blue distance: $100,000
balance: $88,202,453

My kingdom for an orbit

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough money for the blinds. ... My kingdom for an orbit :-)

This is an excerpt from my January 13, 2017 post. I've quoted from it before, and I'm sure to quote from it again. It fits last night's session to a nicety.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6     104   30    34        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,088,768
2020 balance: $15,666,443
blue distance: $1,706,900
balance: $77,474,453 

My kingdom for an orbit

This is the third time I've used this blog post title. I can't improve on what I said the first time:

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough money for the blinds. That's what happened to me in the second MTT I entered last night. My kingdom for an orbit :-)

The good news is that I'm playing well, despite my six session losing streak.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    58      56   12    14        0

delta: $-100,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $38,280,500
2019 balance: $4,276,750
balance: $50,861,010

My kingdom for an orbit

I'm going to crib from myself again. Here's an excerpt of what I had to say the first time I wrote a post with this title:

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough money for the blinds. ... My kingdom for an orbit :-)

This happened to me again last night, in two straight tournaments. The second was virtually a carbon copy of the first.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    59      58   12    19        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    53      48   12    15        0

delta: $-250,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $17,766,500
2017 balance: $18,661,850
balance: $30,079,680

My kingdom for an orbit

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough chips for the blinds. That's what happened to me in the second MTT I entered last night. My kingdom for an orbit :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    30     441  114   231        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    44     113   30    32        0

delta: $-70,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,072,548
2017 balance: $155,400
balance: $11,573,230