Whiff percentage

In baseball, when you swing at the ball and miss, it's called a whiff. Applying this concept to poker, when you fail to make the money in a tournament, or hit the rail in a cash game, that's a poker whiff. That got me to wondering what my poker whiff percentage is. Drumroll, please ...

In 4,421 whiff opportunities, I've whiffed 2,254 times, for a whiff percentage of 53.25%. The good news I derive from this is that you can whiff over half of the time in poker and still make a killing :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6   108     141   36    18   120000
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    86      41    9    15        0

delta: $-30,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $17,566,500
2017 balance: $18,531,850
balance: $29,949,680