I got IN! And now I am OUT!

Yep so I got an email last night that said I was on the waiting list and boom I show up and get in.
I was determined to play aggressively since I sat there last time and was way to passive. The cards helped to, I had KQ twice, KJ twice, 5's and Aces....I lost with all of them and my final hand went like this. Aces on the button, 2 callers of the 100 bb, I raise it to 350 and in front of me is 2000 in chips. The small blind calls, BB folds and the first caller calls.
3 People in the hand, flop comes 2, K, 9 rainbow. I am thinking oh please someone have the king, I need to double up. We have a check and a bet of 350, I sit there for a while, then raise all in for 1650 more to this guy, small blind folds, the guy calls, he flips over pocket 2's for the flopped set and I don't improve.
To aggressive? If I raise to lets say 900 even to see where I am at, doesn't he just call...then I don't know where I am in the hand and if he puts me all in do I put him on a set or two pair? Maybe, but then I am crippled if I don't call anyway.
This was my double up opportunity and well...he hit the set so there wasn't much I could do about it.

Well it's been a while...and I didn't get into Red Hot's TOC

So I haven't updated in quite a while. I have been pretty busy with work etc.
I have been playing Red Hot, usually about 2 times a week, if I am lucky I can get out 3 times. I have been doing really well this season at least in my own mind, I never dropped off the leader board and ended up taking 8th place overall in the weekly online games. (If FCP hadn't switched servers these last couple of weeks I may have made it into the TOC, since I have been playing quite well online)

I had a chance to seal my fate on sunday, showed up late, went down to 1200 chips and fought all the way back to 40k in chips, which put me in 3rd at the final table. But of course I finished 6th...I have pocket 9's, I am on the button and I have one caller, I raise it 3 times the bb to 18,000 I have around 18,000 left after that, bb and sb fold, the caller puts in the extra chips. Flop comes Queen, 8, 2 rainbow. He throws out 20 grand...now I raised pre-flop I only have 18k left and he bets out on a rainbow flop like that with the Queen? I took a while, asked him some questions, then I called. He flipped over A - 8 off, I was a head, as I thought, but another 8 came on the river to put me out.

Overall I finished in 138th place...120 get into the Tournament of Champions. So it really sucks to be honest. I had no doubt that I was going to get in, I thought the magic number would be 5500-6000 points, I ended up with 6425 and the magic number to get in was....6900. Really amazing since the TOC usually is in the range of 4000-5000 points to get in, really competitive season this year.

Also I wanted to mention that a friend of Johnny's is in the Daniel Negreanu Protege Final...which is fucking amazing. So check out his profile and cheer him on.
FCP Name: dynamoz123
Name: Anthony Mak
Age: 23
Hometown: Ancaster, ON
http://protege.fullcontactpoker.com/seat9.php