You have to always thanks others for their mistakes, was playing the 11+ 32 K earlier and with 11 players left I had 1.5 BBs (!!!!!) left after a hand, so what the heck I thought, we'll make the FT some other time. Then this hand comes up, note that the player GOTTARDO333 clearly was going for glory and greed but in the process he made the best hand fold as was evident in the chat that followed and gave me the pot :). Doubled up again the next hand and the very next hand to get back to 25 BBs and finslly ended up shipping the tourney!!! So while I was thinking of 11th place 234$, ended up in 1st place 5.7K due to stupid mistakes of others.

PokerStars Game #61214524434: Tournament #417010266, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (8000/16000) - 2011/04/24 0:20:02 IST [2011/04/23 14:50:02 ET]
Table '417010266 59' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: cuty18 (1122513 in chips)
Seat 2: LupinBlanco (1020306 in chips)
Seat 3: GOTTARDO333 (455623 in chips)
Seat 7: nialha (284917 in chips)
Seat 8: aniceboy (23957 in chips)
Seat 9: cando52 (336700 in chips)
cuty18: posts the ante 1600
LupinBlanco: posts the ante 1600
GOTTARDO333: posts the ante 1600
nialha: posts the ante 1600
aniceboy: posts the ante 1600
cando52: posts the ante 1600
cuty18: posts small blind 8000
LupinBlanco: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to aniceboy [Jh Tc]
GOTTARDO333: raises 21000 to 37000
nialha: folds
aniceboy: calls 22357 and is all-in
cando52: folds
cuty18: calls 29000
LupinBlanco: calls 21000
*** FLOP *** [2s 7s Ts]
cuty18: checks
LupinBlanco: checks
GOTTARDO333: checks
*** TURN *** [2s 7s Ts] [3s]
cuty18: checks
LupinBlanco: checks
GOTTARDO333: bets 32000
cuty18: folds
LupinBlanco: folds
Uncalled bet (32000) returned to GOTTARDO333
*** RIVER *** [2s 7s Ts 3s] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GOTTARDO333: shows [Ah Kc] (a pair of Sevens)
GOTTARDO333 collected 43929 from side pot
aniceboy: shows [Jh Tc] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
aniceboy collected 99028 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 142957 Main pot 99028. Side pot 43929. | Rake 0
Board [2s 7s Ts 3s 7d]
Seat 1: cuty18 (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: LupinBlanco (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 3: GOTTARDO333 showed [Ah Kc] and won (43929) with a pair of Sevens
Seat 7: nialha folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: aniceboy showed [Jh Tc] and won (99028) with two pair, Tens and Sevens
Seat 9: cando52 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Played the SM today and I'd say it was a perfect play right upto the bustout, played like almost 3 hours without a single showdown and chipped up to 20K! And then won with AA against 88 and KK against AK, so my tight image was intact! But in the most crucial hand lost with QQ to JJ with a jack hittng the flop. Luck really needs to be on your side on some days and today wasn't one of them :(, better luck next time, I've decided I'll be playing the SM every week for the next couple of months, so hopefully the run can only get better!

05 Feb 11 No Limit Hold'em HENL $109+ 166 2 $3,875

12 Feb 11 No Limit Hold'em HENL $109+ 187 4 $2,188

19 Feb 11 No Limit Hold'em HENL $109+ 177 1 $5,375

So I guess I'm never missing this tourny on saturdays, am really interested in finding out what happens in this one on 26th Feb :-)