My worst poker variant

I've talked about the imp of the perverse on this blog many times. However, it was always in the context of an in-progress poker session, referring to a bad decision made during the course of playing a hand. Last night, I suffered the imp of the perverse before I'd even started playing - in other words, when I was selecting a tournament to play. There was no $200,000 buy in MTT NLHE on offer, but I saw that there was a $200,000 buy in MTT-B NLHE. Although I've sworn off bounty tournaments, I just couldn't resist joining it. I did moderately well, nearly outlasting the late registration period, which is much harder to do in bounty tournaments than in regular tournaments. However, nearly doing this wasn't nearly enough :-) MTT-B NLHE is my worst poker variant; I've lost $4,383,820 playing it. That's an outlier; in my second worst poker variant, KO NLHE, I've only lost $234,064.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT-B NLHE   174000  26000       9      80   18     -        0
MTT   NLHE    87000  13000       6      46   12    14        0

delta: $-300,000
MTT NLHE balance: $41,628,268
2021 balance: $15,906,500
blue distance: $433,000
balance: $93,571,953