Finished work early enough to play the stars sunday funday 100k - was planning to go away for a couple of days but going to leave it until tomorrow. Lost a load of chips early on when AK missed its flop - was called by AJ and the J on the turn and A on the river were enough for me to be short stacked early on. A series of steals and double ups with marginal hands which I managed to get called by people with worse kept me in it and i actually had an average stack after 90 mins. Had about 8 or 9 BB's when 44 in the cutoff seemd like a good steal opportunity. Might have been if the SB didn't have KK. I don't seem to get many bad beats on stars but sdon't seemto give many out either so it was back to the pavillion.

Was also playing dashboardpal's charidee tourney - he's off to Vietnam to save the world and the $700 raised will go a long way towards making a difference there. I don't give to charity that often (apart from the monthly Greenpeace membership which many wouldn't consider charity anyway) but it seemed the right time to do it as i'd been doing well on stars lately and wouldn't miss the 10$. Actually won the tourney (28 runners) mainly due to one guy donking off chips so he could get to the pub and then everyone having a laugh on the FT - calling with any A rag.

Unfortunately entered a 2000 added 10 rebuy on Laddies - knew i shouldn't as I am very very tired - built up a biggish stack in the first hour then lost it in the second - firstly by calling too much on after the flop trying to hit a flush and then a series of missed flops with hands I wanted to play.
out about halfway down the 500 odd field - shame as i'd put myself in a good position.

For some reason I then entered the 11pm rebuy and the 11:30 turbo mtt (got to try and defend my title :-)) - no luck in either - a decent enough 43 / 251 in the ten rebuy but nothing to report really.

Well for some reason i'm still awake and playing the GY - just keeping my head above water - as I type I just went all in from cut off with A3 suited - only had 5BB's left so needed to nick somebody elses but even as I did it i knew it was a bad move - luckily they folded - ooooooooooooh -- AA. bollocks - 4 x BB raise from mid but they all folded. Just doubled up nicely though with 5 BB's left and from cut off - 1 I all inned with AK - cut off called with A10 and the rng failed to bring the ten - in his position I was folding A10 but each to their own. Some dickhead (mrscott)thought he needed to go all in with any 2 and his J2 held up against my AJ in the BB - he'd been all in from UTG - flush shared board. I then had the Dundee Aces in the SB and his KQ beat me - back to 6 BB's. After going all in 2 or 3 times with absolutey f all he then found AK twice and beat decent players with AQ each time. This guy should be out - i'm not usually so annoyed about idiot play but he's now 2nd in chips with 19 left.

AK utg with 3 and a half BB's left was good enough to double against AQ so thats bought me a bit of time - one more double and i'm in with a good shot at the ft.
Desperate now - A4 from the cut off stole the blinds but living on borrowed time. Playing 7 handed - 14 left - A9 from utg plus one - called by BB's KJ and the JJ flop ensured I didn't even have a get out fluke clause. Bit gutted really - thought I deserved better there having avoided the worst of the muffs.

Ah well tomorrow's a new year and all that - well it will be by the time I post again - so merry 2008 to one and all - and gl.