Going like sixty

The more blog posts you write, the easier it becomes to quote yourself. Here's what I had to say on June 20, 2016, in a post with the same title as this one:

To make the money in an MTT, you need to outlast roughly 75% of your competitors. Outlasting less than 50% of them would clearly be a failure. However, is there some percentage you could outlast, and still be able to consider it a success of sorts, even though you failed to make the money? I think there is, and I'm pegging it at 60. By this criterion, the first of the two MTT NLHEs I played last night was a success, since I outlasted 61.68% of my opponents :-)

I went like sixty for the duration of last night's session, though I failed to make the money. I have to believe better outcomes are coming my way.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    73      85   18    29        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    63      64   15    24        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    68      68   15    18        0

delta: $-450,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $36,046,500
2018 balance: $2,665,000
balance: $48,178,260