Bubble boy

Perhaps nothing dramatizes the contrast between sit and gos and MTTs as much as the difference between how easy (or difficult) it is to bubble them. As a refresher, bubbling a tournament is when you come in one place out of the money. So far in my career, I've played 1,710 sit and gos, and have bubbled 352 of them. That's over 20%. Of the 550 MTTs I've played, I've only bubbled 3 of them; that's a little over one half of one percent. Of course, I wouldn't be talking about bubbling if it wasn't topical :-) I bubbled the second MTT I entered last night.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6   103     108   30    30    72000
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    76      84   21    22        0

delta: $-28,000
MTT NLHE balance: $1,277,748
2016 balance: $78,066
balance: $10,778,430