Waiting on a friend

"Waiting on a Friend" is one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs. I find it applicable to poker, one of my favorite games. A good hand is the friend all poker players wait on.

This is an excerpt from my January 27, 2021 post. Just as you must wait for good hands during a poker session, you must also wait for good sessions. Waiting is fractal in nature. The good news is, good sessions occur with greater frequency than good hands occur in any particular session. Right now, I'm waiting for another monster session, where I make a profit in the scores of millions. I can feel it coming :-)

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     173   27    34         0
MTT-B NLHE   2200000   300000       8     245   34    11   6540000

delta: $-3,460,000
MTT NLHE balance: $396,561,468
2022 balance: $327,817,000
blue distance: $29,170,000
balance: $422,660,953

Waiting on a friend

"Waiting on a Friend" is one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs. I find it applicable to poker, one of my favorite games. A good hand is the friend all poker players wait on. Last night, my waiting was not in vain ...

This is an excerpt from my January 27, 2021 post. It applies equally well to last night's session. On my final hand, I hit a full house on the river, pushing my profit above the $100,000 mark for the first time. I got out of Dodge pronto :-)

delta: $146,330
Cash game NLHE balance: $4,856,637
2022 balance: $-1,159,980
blue distance: $1,416,680
balance: $93,683,973

Waiting on a friend

"Waiting on a Friend" is one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs. I find it applicable to poker, one of my favorite games. A good hand is the friend all poker players wait on. Last night, my waiting was not in vain; two friends showed up. The first was pocket kings, aka cowboys. I won a big pot from an opponent who'd been dealt pocket queens. The second was a nut club flush, winning me another big pot. Those two hands gave me enough poker oxygen to make the money. It was just a min cash, but I'll take it :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6     101   24    22   351000

delta: $151,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,079,768
2021 balance: $-242,000
blue distance: $1,757,900
balance: $77,423,453