So close again...

Another big tourney and another dissapointing finish at the final table. This time it was the Party 200k Guarenteed tourney that has a $200+$15 buy in that runs every Saturday night. There were 997 people so the prize pool ended up being exactly $200k.

I played pretty well the whole tourney and never had a huge chip stack or a very small stack. With about 3 tables left I won a big hand with AK over 66 that gave me a great chance to make the final table. When were down to about 13 people I got some great stealing and restealing hands to give me an above average stack when we reached the final table.

Their was one super aggressive player at the final table, who was directly to my right giving me great position on him, and I was looking to catch a good hand and get all in against him. I didn't get a chance early on and ended up losing about half my chips when I raised AJs and had to call a shorter stacks push. He had QQ and I only paired my jack to double him up.

However, two rotations later I got AJ in the SB and pushed my now shorter stack into the BB who called with A8. The flop came AJx and I doubled up through him and was in great postion again with a nice stack.

The big aggressive player continued to raise (and call) with a lot of hands and he was continually raising and then calling all ins with hands like Q8s and A4o. He sucked out on AKo and AJo on both of those hands to knock the players out. So when he raised and I had AJo I decided I had to make my stand against him. He called with Q9s and the flop came KQJ and I never got any more help to go out in 6th for $8k. Another good payday but when you're looking up at $44k for first and $24k for second it's a little dissapointing to take another beat like that.

I was really hoping to get first or second and have my first 6 digit month but it wasn't to be.

On a side note before the touney started I played cash games for about 2 hours and was up $400 on only two tables. I caught middle set on one hand and got all in against two players. One who had top pair and one on a flush draw for about a $600 pot, which had me feeling good going into the 200k Guarenteed.

Tomorrow there I'll be playing both of the million dollar guarenteed tournies on Stars and Party so maybe I can have another big finish in those and hit my 6 digit mark for July yet. Also the WSOP Main Event is underway in Vegas and while I'm a little dissapointed not to be there this year... watch out in 2007.