Stalking the wild sure thing

Every now and then, I come across a tournament in a delightful state, when there's oodles and oodles of dead money and not much time remaining in the late registration period.

This is an excerpt from my February 12 post of this year. Last night, I came close to encountering this mythical beast again, in the first tournament I entered. The proof? Even though I only lasted 3 hands, I still managed to hit the 42nd percentile :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      52   15    30        0
MTT   NLHE    45000   5000       6      90   21    21    89000

delta: $-161,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,484,668
2020 balance: $16,062,343
blue distance: $1,311,000
balance: $77,870,353