The jettisoned caboose

There's nothing quite so lonely as the feeling of being in a caboose which has been jettisoned from a train, just before you were about to pass into the car in front of it. You can see the train pulling away from you, tantalizingly close, but forever out of your reach. The forward momentum from when you were still connected to the train still pulls you after it, but not fast enough, and fades fast. That's precisely the feeling I get when I bubble a tournament. Last night, I bubbled another MTT-R NLHE. It's much easier to bubble MTT-R NLHEs than it is to bubble MTT NLHEs, for the simple reason that there are many fewer entries; will fewer total places to work with, every possible outcome becomes more likely.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    24      76   18    36        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    83      57   12    13        0

delta: $-400,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $8,440,000
2017 balance: $9,250,525
balance: $20,668,355