It may and may not be profitable for the following: it is profitable as long as apart from winning in the tournament (any awarded position) you eliminate players, because many times you can have many chips but no eliminated (it has already happened to me), usually when I play that kind of tournaments (I play them very little) I try not to focus on eliminating someone because that can come to play against you, many times we become obsessed with eliminating players and neglect the tournament, but the detail is that if you want to have a good collection you must delete and stay itm or win the tournament as such