My kingdom for an orbit

I'm going to crib from myself again. Here's an excerpt of what I had to say the first time I wrote a post with this title:

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough money for the blinds. ... My kingdom for an orbit :-)

This happened to me again last night, in two straight tournaments. The second was virtually a carbon copy of the first.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    59      58   12    19        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    53      48   12    15        0

delta: $-250,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $17,766,500
2017 balance: $18,661,850
balance: $30,079,680