Above the crowd

I have a real fascination with huge field MTTs. Without exception, the largest ones are no limit hold'em. Only a super popular poker flavor could attract such huge numbers of players. At first I thought a field of over 200 was big, but that's puppy food :-) The largest field of any MTT I've played was a whopping 1,200 players. I actually made the money in that one, coming in 79th.

If I get knocked out of an MTT before the late registration period has ended, which is rare, I consider that MTT as unavailable for any statistic involving field size. One such statistic which I've started to keep my eye on is percentile. In the 1,200 player tournament mentioned above, I fell into the 93rd percentile; that is, I outperformed 93 percent of my opponents. Defining a huge field as 750 players or more, that was my highest huge field MTT percentile until last night. In my final MTT, I came in 51st out of 891 players, which falls in the 94th percentile.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    27    42        0
MTT   NLHE      900   100       9     2   796        0
MTT   NLHE     4500   500       6    11    83        0
MTT   NLHE      900   100       9    68    51     3688

delta: $-8,312
MTT NLHE balance: $-30,084
balance: $7,423,960