Houdini-like escape

My laptop has been acting up for a while now. One if its recurring malfunctions is going through periods where it ignores trackpad input. This poses a deadly danger when I'm playing online poker, for it means there may be stretches of time where it's literally impossible for me to act, causing the PokerStars software to sit me out automatically. This points out a glaring deficiency in the PokerStars software itself - it should provide keyboard equivalents for all trackpad features, but does not.

Last night, near disaster struck. I was double tabling, the trackpad went AWOL, and I got sat out of both tournaments. It's a sickening feeling not to have any control over when you'll be able to make poker decisions again. It was looking increasingly likely that I'd be anted and blinded out of both tournaments before the trackpad came back. At the very last moment, my agency was restored to me. It was too late to salvage the MTT NLHE, but I made a Houdini-like escape in the MTT-R NLHE.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    67     126   30    31        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    71      59   12    12   375000

delta: $175,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $45,922,000
2019 balance: $11,902,850
balance: $58,437,110