The mythical futile century

I only played one tournament last night, and failed to make the money. However, I played a goodly number of hands for having nothing to show for it - 77, to be exact. That got me to wondering what's the most hands I've ever played in a losing cause in an MTT NLHE. Here are the top ten:

93  2017-05-10a
87  2017-02-19d
84  2017-03-30a
82  2017-05-11c
80  2017-04-05c
78  2017-04-19a
77  2017-05-17a
77  2017-05-08b
76  2017-03-31b
76  2016-12-14b

Fully four of those tournaments were played this very month, and nine of the ten were played this year. This tells me I'm playing on the cusp of great. I wonder if it's possible to play 100 or more hands and still fail to make the money. Call that a futile century :-) I think it's just a myth.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    77      86   21    31        0

delta: $-50,000
MTT NLHE balance: $3,106,048
2017 balance: $1,027,025
balance: $12,444,855