The first foot of runway

In an earlier post, I compared making the money in an MTT to landing an airplane. I actually had a particular airport (and runway) in mind when I made the analogy - Logan Airport in Boston. To land on the runway I'm thinking of, planes have to approach over water. This can be disconcerting to the passengers, to say the least :-) It's hard not to get the impression that the plane is coming in too low, and will hit the water first. Last night, in the final MTT NLHE I played, I thought my plane was coming in too low. I held out as long as I could; when I eventually hit the rail, I had to wait a bit to find out what my place was. This was due to the fact that multiple players from multiple tables can hit the rail in rapid succession. As it turned out, I landed essentially on the first foot of runway :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    13     835  171   378        0
MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    19     590  126     -        0
MTT   NLHE    18000  2000       9    20     316   81     -        0
MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    46      73   18    29        0
MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    42     651  135   195        0
MTT   NLHE    18000  2000       9    47     265   72    71    31000

delta: $-119,000
MTT NLHE balance: $791,048
balance: $10,291,730