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Today I played the big events on Stars, Party, and Full Tilt. Party didn't go well and I only lasted a couple hours, Full Tilt was a slow death, but Stars went pretty well. I played really well, tight aggressive, never putting alot of my chips in risk and slowly building my stack. I was all-in twice the whole tournament, once with Aces and the other when I got knocked out. We had wittled the starting field of 5,500 down to about 350 and I had a above average stack of 50,000. My table is really aggressive, TONS of action preflop, lots of re-steals and two guys who push a lot because they know it puts alot of pressure on the other players at the table. I am under the gun and get 99 with that blinds at 750/1,500. I don't really like the situation and will sometimes fold this hand, but I hadn't raised in a while and figured that a UTG raise would look really strong. I make it 4,500 and the guy right next to me smooth calls and it folds around to the button who is one of those hyper-aggressive guys who keeps re-stealing. He had been caught re-stealing twice, once when he lost with 97 against KK and the other when he won with K6 against JJ, so he was capable of making moves. The action folds to him and he pushes with 78k. Looking back at it I really should have waited for a better spot, but I talk my self into calling because I think there's a real possibility that he could do this with 88 or less. Anyways I am not worried about the guy behind me because I think he would have re-raised me to begin with if he really had a monster, so I decide this is a good spot to double up and move into the top 10 in chips. I call and he flips over JJ and it's game over for me. SIGH.........

One day I will final table a big tournament again.