[MrBrightside]

an interesting point. I've seen a somewhat related phenomenon in the daily Star's $10 rebuy tourneys. If you are at a relatively tight table, where everyone doesn't automatically rebuy to double at the beginning and go a little crazy to ensure there's a lot of chips at their table to be won,your chances of going to the final table aren't very good. You will enter the second hour, end of rebuy period with a below average stack.

While you can come back from this and go deep, it is much harder and you have to get lucky a few times, as you are now entering what amounts to a deep-stacked tourney with a below avg. stack, plus when someone finally busts from this unfortunate table, they will probably be replaced with a big stack.