so close

Today was a day of near misses. I played three tournies and went deep in two of them, i also swapped 15% with cashpoint in two of them and he went deep in both as well. The bad news is neither of us made a final table, the good news is that i played well and feel that i'm ready to once again make some much needed money.
First up was the Friday special $215 buy in tourney, as usual there were about 200 runners. I got off to a great start when the table lunatic doubled me up with AA on a 7 6 3 rainbow, he had 9 6 and had made it 210 to play UTG . After i made it 710 from the sb and he called all i had to do was check the flop and let him commit himself, easy. From the 3k starting stack i was soon up to 11 when my kings busted 5's all in pre. One thing that i did enjoy about the tourney was that i was on table 1 and never moved, this allowed me to analyse my opponents but despite this advantage i seemed to be losing pretty much every hand when i saw the flop. In the next 2 hours i was dealt AK soooooted 4 times and despite playing the hand in pretty much every possible way i lost all 4, i even limped with it, flopped the nut flush draw and had to fold it on a paired flop. I was also getting outplayed in a lot of pots by players hellpower1 and cosmictrigger, by the look of their results i'm not sure how. I ended up bubbling in 21st when i ran AK into KK but i only had 14 big blinds at this point so this was inevitable. Cashy did slightly better ending up in 15th but he lost 2 big races that cost him a big pay day. Having said that cashy certainly had his fair share of luck to get that far. with blinds at 150/300 he turned a stack of 2.2K into 17K in 10 minuets: 77 v AQ, QQ on a jack high board against the nut flush draw and AA against 10 10 all in pre, button V small blind. For a man who claims to be the unluckiest player ever thats a nice 10 minuets lol.
In the 18K gtd $55 tourney i got out the blocks quick again when i went for a gamble early with 9 8 soooooted on a 6 7 8 board playing against JJ. With a larger field (approx 460) i decided to gamble more and built a big stack thanks to winning around 5 out of the 7 races i played in the middle stages. My momentum was shot however when i lost a 20K pot at 400/800 with 88 V AJ. I still had 30K but it knocked me a bit and by the time the blinds got to 800/1600 i was down to about 12 big blinds. I ended up pushing with filth and getting caught for a frustrating finish of 27th.
I think by this stage i was getting bored and playing the 20K gtd was a big mistake cause i lasted around 15 minuets and played like a total prick. I then watched 2 episodes of entourage (possibly the best show on tv at the moment) and came back to see cashy (and my 15%) still in. He ended up 26th with 30 getting paid but the way he went out sums up why i love the site soooooo much. With blinds at 600/1200 and a 50 ante it gets folded round to cash in the sb with J 10 of diamonds, he has about 26K before the hand and the bb has about 40. So he raises to 3,300 and the bb flat calls and they take a flop: 9 7 4 with 2 diamonds. Cashy checks and the guy fires 6K. Cash point then moves in for about 17K more and the guy insta calls with 4 2 off!! despite us both yelling for an 8, J, 10 or a diamond (to many outs) he misses and the moron picks up the pot. For me this just sums up your classic donkey, i have no idea how he was still in the tourney but good luck to the guy cause i tell you from the looks of this hand he is gonna need it.
I've just finished a quick sesh at 0.5/1 and i just about got my buy ins back from the tournies tonight so i'll probs play a few more tomo. I'm in a really bad sleeping pattern and plan to stay up all night, get an early one on saturday and wake up nice an early for the Oxford cup cause i hope its gonna be a long day, hope i have a lot to write about on monday morning before Newquay.
Bankroll:$4,350