Out of Bellagio 5000 just short of the money

I actually got up to about 50000 early after I slowplayed Aces for a big pot to bust Mike Gracz. I then bled for a little while and then rebounded to take a 1.1x average stack to the dinner break with 45 remaining. Things just didn't go my way after dinner. With 27 players left I had 39500 at 1500/3000 for the table redraw. I drew a death seat with Scotty Nguyen baby, online players Bakes and Thayer and Danny Wong all to my direct left. It'd be ok if they were all to my right because they're all active enough that I could move in over them. I ended up shoving 32000 from the cutoff with 33 and an incredibly intoxicated Scott Nguyen called all in for 20500. The others folded and Scotty showed AA. I doubled him up on a board of 55235. I got my final 10000 in with K5o against Danny Wong's KJo and missed. Danny will record an insane 5th cash of the series with his sure-to-be cash tonight.

I'm going to get some sleep, probably go to the gym, and then show up at Bellagio just in time for the start of the super satellite tomorrow at 1 p.m. If I bust from the super then I'll grind as many single table sats as I can and will probably play deep into the morning at Bellagio. I'll then take the rest of Saturday off and play day1b of the main event on Sunday.

I really couldn't ask for much more besides a win in the prelims. I'll take 3 final table appearances though. I hate that the prelims are over, but I'm ecstatic about the main event. I might be playing the best tournament poker of my career right now. My cash yesterday officially put me over the 2 million dollar mark in on paper gross tournament winnings, so I'm happy to reach that milestone. There's only about 120 men in the world that are in that fraternity. ::Subtle brag::

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