The pleasures of failing to make the money

When I don't make the money in a tournament, all is not for naught. In fact, there are multiple pleasures to be had; here are some of them:

- the joy of playing well
- the fun on seeing very rare events, even if they're not happening to you
- the schadenfreude of outlasting many of your "usual suspect" opponents

Last night, I experienced all of these. The rare event was when one of my opponents made quad jacks.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    65      78   18    40        0

delta: $-150,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $19,040,500
2017 balance: $19,950,350
balance: $31,368,180