Lion or lamb

When a tournament approaches the money bubble, every remaining player must decide if they want to play like a lion or play like a lamb. Lions are going for the money up top; lambs are just going for a min cash. Interestingly, there's no hard and fast answer to the problem of how one should play. Many times, I'm content to be a lamb, and try to fold my way into the money. However, many other times I insist on being a lion; that's what I did last night. I missed the money by three spots, but have zero regrets :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      85   21    24        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $21,362,668
2020 balance: $14,140,343
balance: $75,948,353