$393,000 fall-in survival

My ability to ladder up when I reach the final table continues. Sometimes it takes skill, and other times a heavy dose of luck. On Friday night, it was the latter. On hand 92 of the second tournament I entered, I reached the final table in seventh place out of eight. 20 hands later, I was still in seventh place, but now there were only seven players left, and I was severely short-stacked. I only had 5,000 chips, and the next shortest stack had 41,550. The ante was 1,200 and the blinds were 6,000 and 12,000. I was in the small blind, so I fell in. Miraculously, I survived, and finished in fifth place four hands later. That was two money jumps ahead of where I should have finished, and bumped up my profit by $393,000. I'll take it :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    26      69   15    57        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9   116      62   15     5  1136000

delta: $936,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $44,259,000
2019 balance: $10,255,250
balance: $56,839,510