Bubbling the bubble

I go back on forth on what makes me feel worse - bubbling a tournament or bubbling the bubble. I think I know why this is. How bad I feel has less to do with the number of places I miss the money by, and more to do with how good I thought my chances of making the money were, before I hit the rail.

This is an excerpt from my November 6, 2021 post. In the first tournament I played yesterday, I bubbled the bubble. I hadn't been expecting to make the money, so I wasn't disappointed. In other news, I recorded my fifth straight dynamic duo.

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     307   81    83        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     309   81    78    67000

delta: $-33,000
2024 balance: $3,860,000
2024 blue distance: $52,000
balance: $16,669,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.74 (1274 of 3052)