A chip and a chair

This is the fourth time I've used this title; the first was on October 27, 2011. I included a reference in all the previous posts, and I'll do the same here:

An old poker adage says that all you need to win is a chip and a chair, especially since Jack “Treetop” Straus pulled off this feat in the '82 championship.

James McManus, "Positively Fifth Street"

Last night was the closest I've ever come to winning a sit and go when I was down to my last chip. For definition purposes, I consider having a stack of one small blind or less to be the time when you're down to your last chip. In the second SNG NLHE I played, I started three-handed play with just 115 of the 6,000 chips at the table. At this point, the small blind was 75 and the big blind was 150. I was sitting in the big blind, so I "fell in" for my last 115. I won this pot without a showdown, as both my opponents folded. 67 hands later, I finished in first. I won in style, with quad kings :-) This wonderful result enabled me to get back into the black on the year. My goal is to keep playing $100,000 BI+EF SNG NLHEs until my 2016 balance tops a million play dollars; if I can achieve that, I'll play MTTs for the rest of the year.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    85000 15000       6    33     2   178500
KO    NLHE     8500  1500       9    11     5        0
SNG   NLHE    85000 15000       6   116     1   331500
SNG   NLHE    85000 15000       6    66     4        0

delta: $200,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,463,840
balance: $10,705,755