Out with baby cowboys

On April Fools' day of 2012, I coined a poker neologism:

As I've mentioned before in this space, I really enjoy learning and using poker slang. Not only that, I like inventing my own, and putting it out there into the ether, in the hopes that it might thereby come into common usage someday. Today, I offer the latest example of my poker slang for your consideration - baby cowboys. This one came about somewhat accidentally. I remembered that cowboys was slang for a particular pocket pair, but got the denomination wrong. I thought it referred to pocket jacks, but instead if refers to pocket kings. Since jacks are worth less than kings, and since both jacks and kings are male, I came up with baby cowboys as a slang term for pocket jacks.

It's never fun to hit the rail at a tournament, but I never feel too badly when I had a good holding on my final hand. That was the case in my final MTT last night, when I went out with baby cowboys. I got all my chips in before the flop; at that moment, I was a 56.72% favorite to win the hand. After the flop, I was a 9.19% dog. After the turn, I was a 4.55% dog; only two cards could save me, and neither did. Although I had a losing session, it was nonetheless an evermore and ever better one.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    39      80   21     -        0
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    65     496  132   136        0
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    95     425  114    32    62400

delta: $-27,600
MTT NLHE balance: $2,827,748
2017 balance: $749,725
balance: $12,167,555