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.I know the other table said they had a really hot dealer, but I don't think our table the dealer was that hot, we had a couple people that were betting big from the start but the cards changed on them and they continued to bet big so you can guess what happened.
This was the first time I had played an accumulation table, so I didn't know what to expect as far as chip count or betting so I just went in with the mind set to play my table as I would normally and hope for the best.
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.