Tournament table boss

While being the table boss can be an uncomfortable feeling in a cash game, in a tournament it's a wonderful feeling. In a cash game, you don't want to give back your gains, and have to decide when to quit. In a tournament, quitting is not an option, and you want the leverage that having a big stack provides. Another reason you don't feel the same about a big stack in a tournament as you do about one in a cash game is that the chips don't represent what you actually have on the line. What you have on the line in a tournament, at any time, is a constant - your buy in plus your entry fee. What you have on the line in a cash game changes from hand to hand, and actually from moment to moment within a hand. I started out loving cash games, but now I sort of hate them. Luckily for me, it turns out I love tournaments :-)

Last night I was the last one to join a sit and go 8-game, and was also the last one standing at the end. I was the table boss for 48 of the 80 hands, which isn't too shabby.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   8-Game   9000  1000       6    80     1    35100

delta: $25,100
Sit and go 8-game balance: $464,410
balance: $10,069,564