Played a $25+2 sit-n-go early yesterday evening and won it, paying $112.50. Then I watched some tv and was going to get ready to go to bed when I saw that a $100+9 was about to start and there was only around 240 players or so. But since I had pretty much won my entry fee earlier in the evening, I couldn’t help myself and just jumped in. Ended up being 260 players, top 18 places get paid, top three get $7,150, $4,550, and $3,016 respectively. As is typical of my multi-table play, I accumulated chips slow as molasses while waiting for chances to double up. This time I wasn’t catching any cards to do so and the blinds were getting big 300-600 relative to my stack of about 2500. I got an AJs and moved in. My hand held up, and the best part was not only did I get the blinds, but two callers as well, so I more than tripled up. From there I started catching good enough cards to make heavy raises and since the blinds were juicy, I was up to 30k in no time and finally had some room to maneuver. Went into a bit of a steal mode since my raises were getting so much respect all of a sudden, then the best possible thing happened- I caught AA in the middle of all my raising and somebody with AK and a bigger chip stack had seen enough and decided to come over the top. I gladly pushed in and doubled up. That put me in about 5th place with maybe 40 players left, so I started being more selective about picking my spots to bet. Everything pretty much went smoothly with me bouncing around between 1st spot and 12th spot all the way up until the final table. At that point I was guaranteed at least $360. I believe the payouts were something like 9th: $360 8th: $460 7th: $650 6th:$1,120. Something like that. Anyway, one player busts out in 9th fairly quickly. Then we bat chips around the table for a while before something interesting happened. Someone finally gets short stacked, sitting on the button with about 7500 in chips, me with about 60,000 (3rd in chips at the time) in the BB holding A4 of diamonds, and the blinds at 1000-2000 with about a 100 ante. A middle position player with 32k in chips raises to 6000, the short stack moves in, so it’s only 5500 for me to call, getting 3-1 on my money *IF* I can close out the betting there. So I do what I think is the sensible thing and make it 32000 to go, essentially putting the initial raiser in a position where he has to fold with just about anything, leaving me to show down my A4 suited heads up against the short stack. Yes that’s 32K I’m putting in the pot, but basically just a show move, because I only expect 5500 of it to actually be in play after the initial raiser folds, because at his chip stack, he *is* looking at the difference between 7th and 8th place money and I’m not. I’m thinking about winning the whole thing and this was a chance to get 3 to 1 on my money, and at only 5500, I wouldn’t be devastated if I lost the race. Well, the reraiser folded as expected, but I lost the heads up race when short stack caught a straight or a flush, I don’t recall exactly which because I was busy reading the flames people were directing towards me. “Nice play Money” … “Yeah”. I sarcastically just said “ty” cause to my mind, I need to get chips from somewhere and that looked like a juicy opportunity to me. I controlled the table and got the situation I wanted; I just didn’t win the race. Oh well, screw em. In the end, I made it to the final three, but it was already like 3:15am and we all had around 100k in chips, so we decided to chop for about $4900 a person. Not bad for a night’s work!