Robbing Peter to pay Paul

There were three things I really loved about midnight trains:

1. it was pretty easy to make the money playing them

2. their min cashes gave you a very decent profit

3. the money up top was enormous

The tournaments I'm playing now have only one thing going for them - the money up top is truly obscene. It's harder to make the money playing them, and their min cashes are nothing to write home about. The reason? PokerStars is robbing Peter to pay Paul; they're stealing from the lower place payouts to inflate the upper place ones.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       8     431   71   147        0

delta: $-50,000
MTT NLHE balance: $43,851,468
2022 balance: $-1,921,070
blue distance: $4,023,060
balance: $92,922,883