.38 special

This is the third time I've used this blog post title. This time, I'm talking about the ROI I made when I hit the bottom rung of the pay ladder in the one MTT NLHE I played last night. Of course it was a 6 max; if it had been a 9 max, I would have lost money :-) I have the sneaking suspicion this is the best bottom rung ROI I've ever had; sometime soon, I'll verify if this is true. Unfortunately, that will require some manual labor; since PokerStars doesn't save the pay tables in the hand histories, I save them via screen captures.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

POW   NLHE     2125   375       3     ?       3    1     3        0
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6    40     386   96    89    27600

delta: $5,100
MTT NLHE balance: $2,416,448
2017 balance: $443,175
balance: $11,861,005