Thin tournaments considered harmful

I got what I wished for last night - an earlier train which wasn't a toy train. Then I discovered that I hadn't wished for enough. I should have wished for a train which not only wasn't a toy, but was also not thin. A thin tournament is one that doesn't have a large number of entries. Thin tournaments have smaller prize pools, fewer paid places, and smaller payouts. A trifecta of good reasons not to enter them! The only way to ensure that you don't enter a thin tournament is to postpone entering it until it has grown fat :-) Last night, I failed to do that.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000  26000       6      54   15    17        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $34,158,768
2021 balance: $10,737,000
blue distance: $250,000
balance: $88,402,453