Outrunning a bear

There's an old joke that goes like this:

Steve and Mark are camping when a bear suddenly comes out and growls.  Steve starts putting on his tennis shoes.
Mark says, “What are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear!”
Steve says, “I don’t have to outrun the bear—I just have to outrun you!”

https://jokes.boyslife.org/jokes/you-cant-outrun-a-bear/

I used that philosophy to good advantage last night, when I was severely short-stacked with the money bubble about to pop. There were 19 players left, and 18 places would be paid. I was in 18th place, and concentrated all my energy on keeping my stack bigger than the stack of the player in 19th. In this case, that simply meant folding every hand. I was happy to do it :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    73      79   18    18   315000

delta: $115,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $39,800,500
2018 balance: $6,077,000
balance: $51,590,260