Personal first

Personal worsts are relatively rare. The same is true for personal bests. The really rare beast, however, is the personal first. That's when something happens to you which has never happened to you before. By definition, a personal first can happen only once. Last night I had one. For the very first time, I exited an MTT without winning any money and also without losing any money. I broke even exactly. This can only happen in tournaments with pay tables which steal from the poor places and give to the rich ones. On PokerStars, these are typically 9 max MTTs; I don't think I've ever seen a 6 max MTT with a screwy pay table like that. I've tried to convince myself not to play MTTs with screwy pay tables, but I haven't succeeded yet. The money up top is just too tempting :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    41     606  126   155        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    30      80   21     -        0
MTT   NLHE    43500  6500       9    41     154   36    28    50000

delta: $-70,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,391,948
2017 balance: $424,800
balance: $11,842,630