WCOOP event #6

I spent the better part of yesterday playing in the WCOOP (World Championships of Online Poker) Event #6, $215 NL Hold'em w/Rebuys. I started off well and doubled up early with JJ vs. QQ on a Jack high flop. This didn't last long though as I lost several tough hands in the next 30 minutes and had to rebuy. I won a few pots before the break and after the add on had about 13,000 chips, plenty above average and was only in for $800. I played for so long that I can't remember all the hands but I slowly built my chip stack over the next 3 or 4 hours and when we hit the money (270 players) I was in the top 20 in chips at 110,000. Then things turned a little. I went pretty card dead over the next 3 hours and never saw any big pairs. I kept my stack sustained by picking good spots, stealing the right pots, and re-stealing in key positions. When we got down to the final 80 or so I started to get a little excited, even though I was relatively short stacked with only 170,000 and blinds of 4k/8k. I had several steal attempts that didn't work when a bigger stack re-raised me, once showing his Aces. I couldn't get any cards but stayed alive. About an hour later we were down to 40 or so and I pushed all in from the cutoff, trying to steal with 99. Unfortunately the BB woke up with AA and I was out in a very disappointing 41st place. First place was almost $225,000 and I really wanted it, unfortunately it just wasn't my night. I was very happy with how I played though and am optimistic about my multi table improvement over the last two months. I'll probably grind some 5/10 tonight and play some multi's tomorrow.