A sorely missed datum

MTTs have become my favorite style of poker. Unfortunately, the PokerStars software doesn't save what I consider to be a vital MTT datum - the number of players who are still in the tournament at the start of a hand. Without this, there's no way to do a post-mortem evaluation to see if I was modulating my decisions appropriately at crucial times. When it's bubble time, you almost never want to bet or raise, and very rarely want to call. Last night, I seem to remember being too frisky at bubble time in one of the tournaments, but there's no good way to tell.

Even though I came out a big loser last night profit-wise, I think I was making good decisions; that's really all you can ask of yourself.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    21      71   18    30        0
MTT   NLHE    43500  6500       9    17     120   27     -        0
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    84      65   12    12    73000
MTT   NLHE    43500  6500       9     5     133   27    48        0
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    45      59   12    17        0

delta: $-177,000
MTT 8-game balance: $311,170
balance: $10,598,295