Well I’m out … It was tough starting short stacked. Finally get AK and push only to run into AA, not much more to do when so short in chips. Was officially 48 out of 2,200 players … another day tomorrow.

As frustrated as I get from being bumped, later, I have to put the whole tournament into perspective. We started with 3,000 in chips, I got down to 800 in chips and came back big. Here’s what happened … was just getting killed on every premium hand and couldn’t win a pot. A pre flop raise by a very tight player was only 300 to me, I only had 800 and was dealt 9/8 of diamonds, a hand I like. Figured I’d have to shove no matter what, I see an 8 in the door and was going to go .. but then saw another one on the flop. I check and the other two players check. The turn is a blank (figured if it was an ace I was in trouble) so I tossed my last 500 chip in the pot. Pre flop raiser tosses in a 500 chip and flips over aces, only to see my set of 8’s … so I was saved and was able to parlay that into a final 3% of the field .. not too bad Queen I should tell myself more often, not too bad.