I'm still trying to analyze why a surprisingly low chip count took first place. Your information is helpful but I was wondering about one more occurrence.Out of the 14 players starting in the final round, do you know how many busted out?I agree with LeftNut, it is an achievement to end up in the money with little knowledge of accumulation format strategy.
thanks for the kind words...... I only know for sure. At my table only 1 person busted out, I think it was around the 13th hand. One ended up with only $100 left after leading the first 6 hands or so by betting large, and 1 other had a little over $1000 left. I was way too tired by the end of the night to try to remember everyone's chip stacks except those that were ahead of me, and the ones I could count out at my table.