Continuous improvement

One of the goals of many companies these days is continuous improvement of their processes and products. It's a lofty and worthwhile goal, but quite hard to achieve. It's also a lofty and worthwhile goal in poker, and even harder to achieve there than it is in business. What do I mean by a poker process? Simply, the thinking a player goes through to make a poker decision. What do I mean by a poker product? The result of that thinking. When playing tournaments, the best measure of poker product is the place you came in. Of course, MTT places can't be compared directly to SNG places.

Last night's session was quite rare, in that it showed continuous improvement of my poker product. Whether or not this was indicative of continuous improvement of my poker process is anybody's guess :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

MTT   HORSE    4500   500       6    12    71        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    26     3        0
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    32    53        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    71     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    79     2    94500
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    75     1   175500

delta: $60,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,344,300
balance: $9,030,879