Three goals, and an implicit fourth

Counting tonight, there are 86 nights left in the year. Looking at my current extrapolated totals, I'm setting my sights on achieving the following goals for this poker year:

       330 sessions (current extrapolation: 328)
75,000,000 play dollars wagered (current extrapolation: 74,700,716)
96,000,000 play dollars won (current extrapolation: 95,505,520)

The implicit fourth goal derives from the second and third:

21,000,000 play dollars profit (current extrapolation: 20,804,803)

What this amounts to is that I simply want to maintain the status quo for the remainder of the year :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    35      89   21    51        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    19      61   15    53        0
MTT   NLHE    87000 13000       6    33      63   12    17        0

delta: $-350,000
MTT NLHE balance: $4,222,668
2019 balance: $15,902,850
balance: $62,437,110

Three outliers

I found three outliers in last session's data, which is pretty unusual:

1. in the MTT 8-game, I wasn't above water until the end of the 57th hand, which is a personal borscht for this poker variant
2. I hit the rail in the MTT 8-game when my flush ran into an uberflush, a rare occurrence on the final hand of a tournament
3. in the MTT-B NLHE, I had an internal freefall of 27 straight hands, a rare occurrence in a tournament where I make the money

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-B NLHE    87000 13000       9    60     192   45    40    97000
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    60      57   12    33        0

delta: $-53,000
MTT with bounties NLHE balance: $-263,720
2019 balance: $16,252,850
balance: $62,787,110

Double city

Last night's session featured a bunch of doubles. Here are the ones I'm aware of:

- I double-tabled
- I achieved two centuries
- I made the money twice
- in one of the tournaments, I received double the expected number of premium hands

Let's just call it double city :-) In other news, it was the 33rd session this year where I made a profit of at least half a million.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6   104      73   21     7   635000
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6   143     117   30    13   126000

delta: $511,000
MTT NLHE balance: $4,372,668
2019 balance: $16,305,850
balance: $62,840,110

Two's company

Lately, my poker comfort zone is double tabling. One tournament at a time is not enough, and three at a time is too many. Two at a time is perfect. Last night, I double tabled, and made the money in both tournaments. Double tabling tends to give me a psychological boost; it doesn't feel so bad to get short-stacked in one tournament if you're crushing the other :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    88      81   21     3   331000
MTT   NLHE    87000 13000       6    74      59   15    14   153000

delta: $334,000
MTT NLHE balance: $3,861,668
2019 balance: $15,794,850
balance: $62,329,110

Two unusual exit hands

Last night, I played two tournaments and missed the money in both. The final hand of each tournament was unusual. In the first one, I hit a flush on the river only to lose to a full house which an opponent hit on the river (another instance of a Judas card). In the second, I fell in, was dealt a big slick (a premium hand), made a pair of kings on the river, and lost to a two pair. To get an idea of how rare this latter hand was, of 64,575 career MTT-R NLHE hands, I've only fallen in 196 times. Of those 196, only 5 have been premium hands. Of those 5, I've only lost 2.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    53      85   21    44        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    99      48   12    15        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $47,947,000
2019 balance: $15,460,850
balance: $61,995,110

A long time in the dark

Last night, for the first time in over a month, I got under the lights in an MTT-R NLHE tournament, ending a stretch of 22 straight MTT-R NLHEs where I failed to get under the lights. That's a long time in the dark. Here's hoping there are lighter days ahead :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6    55      62   18    16   269000
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9   111      44    9     5   704000

delta: $573,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $48,097,000
2019 balance: $15,660,850
balance: $62,195,110

Photo finish

The MTT 8-game tournament I entered last night ended in a humorous way. I was shedding chips, but the tournament was shedding players at the same time. Would the tournament shed me before the money bubble burst, or would I make the money by the skin of my teeth? I'm happy to say it was the latter :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6    11      47   12     -        0
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    85      52   12    12    58000

delta: $-192,000
MTT NLHE balance: $3,508,668
2019 balance: $15,087,850
balance: $61,622,110