final table?

sat down to play last night around 7pm and cashed in one of my freebe $75 tokens into the $35k guarantee and loaded up 4 tables of 2/4nl. i almost went bust like 5 min in as i had a bunch of stuff going on and was check/calling down w/ 77 on a T643 board before i wisened up and folded. after that i sailed slowly building up and being in the top 20% in chips for most of the tournament. there were 671 entrants and when we got down to the final 3 tables i was the chip leader. i held that distinction till there was about 7 left when shit started going sour for me. w/ 6 left i was 5/6 w/ about 225k to the short stacks 125k and called his jam w/ A6ss and lost the flip to T9ss to be crippled at 6k/12 + ante. he then went bust on the next hand and i managed to double up shoving J5dd utg 5 handed and getting called by A9o. i got there on the river when the board on the turn read 842A and i binked the old 3 ball to double up. i somehow doubled up again and we were down to 4 players left. the chip leader had a little over 700k, i had 470k, 3rd stack had about 400k and the small stack about 270k w/ blinds at 8k/16k + ante i believe. on the button, the 400k co opened, i 3-b w/ AKcc, blinds folded and we got it in for the chip lead and i bricked off against his TT.

first place paid 11k plus but i settled for 4k for fourth. not bad for a freeroll i guess and the adrenaline rush was pretty sick.

as for cash i made about $500 over the course of 1k hands before feeling really burnt out and just single tabled my tourny from then on. i think i played a little spewy in a few spots but also had some interesting hands playing pretty deep.

i'll probably play tomorrow and then have a good start to august with a wide open schedule on the weekend to play.

bankroll sits at about $23.5k, an all time high.

tg