Last train to Clarksville

I love joining tournaments with just a minute left in their late registration periods; it's what I call taking the last train to Clarksville. All aboard! You feel like you snuck onto the train and didn't have to pay for your ticket. In some ways that's true, since a whole bunch of other players were thrown off the train before you got on, and left all their nice money on the train. It's just waiting there for you to pick it up :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6     127   36    23   353000

delta: $153,000
MTT NLHE balance: $9,154,668
2020 balance: $2,132,343
balance: $63,940,353

Last train to Clarksville

Playing in a poker tournament is a bit like riding a train, but there are some key differences :-) First and foremost, you can be chucked off the train at any time, with no advance warning. Also, you have no set destination in mind; your aim is simply to stay on the train as long as you can. Last night, I took the last train to Clarksville. Readers of sufficient vintage will recognize that as the title of a 1966 song by the Monkees. I joined the tournament when there was only one minute left in the late registration period. It's always a little nerve-wracking when you try to do that, since you can be shut out if you're unlucky enough not to have enough time to perform two mouse clicks. That's happened to me more than once before. Be that as it may, I was in time last night. This tournament had an unusually high number of entries - 349. The last time I played in an MTT NLHE with at least that many entries was way back on February 21, 2017, in a tournament which attracted 350. 349 entries doesn't qualify last night's tournament as a massive, but let's call it a mini massive :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6     349   84     9   329000

delta: $279,000
MTT NLHE balance: $9,369,668
2020 balance: $2,394,343
balance: $64,202,353