Take the top 10% and the middle 10% and see how they finished.

Are you arguing that having a larger chip stack doesnt help?

If you look at the top 50 players. The middle 50 players and the bottom 50 players.

I would wager that on average - the top 50 on day one have more players make it into the money, and make more money than the middle 50 and the middle 50 have more than the bottom 50.

As to how he did it, I posted one hand example.