the good thing was

The good thing about today was the fact that in every important tournament I played today (the $163 55k, the 20 rebuy, the 75 25, and a few 45 person sit and goes), I took bad beats to bust out. While its slightly painful for about 3 seconds when you lose, that "pain" is much less than having busted by making bad plays.

That being said, lots of money was left on the table tonight. I wound up taking 4th in the 20 rebuy for $1k and change, took 15th or so in the $163 for about $500, and took 4th in a $75 45 person. I also played some more 3/6 and 5/10 pl omaha today was up nicely as well. I lost in a few multis too, but to cash in 3 multitables in one night is definitely running better than expectation.

In the 55k, i hung on absoltely forever between 15k and 22k and never really got anything going. I doubled finally from 10k with QQ against AJ and several hands later got it in with JJ vs KQ and lost.

in the 20 rebuy i played some great poker for a long long time. i found myself with 375k out of about 1m with 4 left after winning a huge blind vs blind hand AA vs KQ on a Q22 board with lots of betting and raising preflop and all the money in on the flop. I blinded off and made my only bad move of the entire damn tournament by calling rubbersoul, a great player with A10 after he pushed from utg. I had called him earlier with KJ and he had Q9 and won the pot, so I figured i could be good or 50/50. yadda yadda, I lost and kept blinding down until I lost a big hand I dont recall right now and dropped all the way to 35k still with four left.

somehow i grinded back to 200k when my bust hand came up. i found qq in the bb and got all in preflop against UTG with AKo and I lost to A on flop. Better then flop than the turn or river, but it happens. All told, up about 2k on the day.