My kingdom for an orbit

Sometimes, you know you're going to make the money in an MTT. Other times, you know you're going to just miss making the money. The closer you get, the more it hurts not to make it. It really hurts to know that it you could just drag your sorry poker carcass around for one more orbit of the table, you'd make it, but there's no way in hell to do it, since you don't have enough money for the blinds. ... My kingdom for an orbit :-)

This is an excerpt from my January 13, 2017 post. I've quoted from it before, and I'm sure to quote from it again. It fits last night's session to a nicety.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6     104   30    34        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $23,088,768
2020 balance: $15,666,443
blue distance: $1,706,900
balance: $77,474,453