Another phantom rung

Last night, I finished in 15th place. In general, that's a fine thing. Unfortunately, in this case, only 12 places were paid. That got me to wondering what the minimum number of entries is for PokerStars to pay 15 places. I looked it up; the answer is 61. Since there were only 50 entries in last night's tournament, the only thing my finish achieved was another phantom rung :-)

This is an excerpt from my April 3, 2019 post; I'll use it as a template. Last night, I finished in 24th place. In general, that's a fine thing. Unfortunately, in this case, only 21 places were paid. That got me to wondering what the minimum number of entries is for PokerStars to pay 24 places. I looked it up; the answer is 91. Since there were only 83 entries in last night's tournament, the only thing my finish achieved was another phantom rung :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      83   21    24        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $25,401,768
2021 balance: $2,030,000
blue distance: $1,642,000
balance: $79,695,453