Money jumps

The title of this post is deliberately ambiguous. Is "jumps" a plural noun, or a verb? Actually it's both :-) The way all MTT payouts are structured, the gaps between the payout levels dramatically increase as you head from the bottom to the top; moreover, the number of paid places at each payout level decreases, until you reach the final table, where just one place is paid per level. Therefore, the higher up the ladder you go, the bigger the money jumps (a plural noun here) get. Also, the more the money jumps (a verb here) around from stack to stack.

It's certainly a thrill when you make it through the lower levels of a tournament and reach the really significant money jumps. It almost feels like cheating! Not only are you getting paid ridiculously more money for getting to the next level, it's easier to get there as well, since not as many players have to be eliminated in order to achieve that.

Last night, in the second MTT NLHE I entered, I got under the lights again. When the final table started, I had the fourth largest chip stack of the six players. Things went according to form, and I finished in fourth. I've now won $934,396 playing MTT NLHE this year. I'm going to try to push it over a million tonight :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    34     636  135   286        0
MTT   NLHE    17500  2500       6   185     447  114     4   289400

delta: $249,400
MTT NLHE balance: $938,448
balance: $10,677,280