You were never shovelier

The shorter your stack gets, the wider your shoving range becomes. A hand you would never shove with if you had a healthy stack can be almost obligatory to shove with when your stack is sickly. Why? The reason is simple. When your stack is small enough, your only legitimate actions are to fold or to shove. If your hand is halfway decent, you must shove. That's the position I was in on the final hand of last night's session. I was dealt ATo (ace ten offsuit), which was certainly good enough to shove with, given my minuscule stack. I lost to an opponent who hit a straight on the river. Knowing I'd made the correct play took some of the sting out of hitting the rail.

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6     114   30    35        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $21,762,668
2020 balance: $14,540,343
balance: $76,348,353