And a deep run or two I got.

I'm gonna keep this post pretty short since I'm playing the Fallsview Poker Classic main event in 90 minutes and still need to buyin, but I ended up busting near the end of day 2 in the PCA, ran AQ into KK and then shoved 22 into a bigger pair to bust something like 400th when 224 paid.

The next day I bought into the 1k which started at noon and as of 3am when they shut down play I was still in with I believe an above average stack with 24 left(390 played, 1st got 100k). Early in the day I called a HJ raise from a very agro player with 55 from the BB and checkraise-called it off on a 332hh flop against his TT to bust 19th for 3,050 but was able to latereg for the 1.5k as the 2nd last player to get in.

Again, at 3am I was still in, this time with a little under average with 27 left(450 played, 1st got 168k). The day started pretty well and I worked my 160k up to like 350k. I was told by a player at the other table that the guy who got moved to my left did a decent amount of 3betting in position, so when he 3bet my HJ-1 raise 22BB deep and I had AJs, I ended up jamming into his aces and was down to 49k at 5k/10k. I then shoved UTG, got a walk, shove the SB, and then shoved JJ in the CO and doubled through A8o to get up to like 200k. I then lots K8o to a short stack's Q5o but was able to keep picking up lots of blinds(which were now getting quite high). I enterred the final table with about 700k when average was 550k, but the table was looking fairly tough. There were 5 young online guys and 3 older guys, a bunch of short stacks and a few huge stacks(I was in like 3rd or 4th despite being well above avg).

One player busted early at the final table and then commandorcool shoved UTG at 10k/20k for 120k and I had K5o in the BB. I called and lost to K9o to double him up which later prooved to be annoying since he did about as much 3betting as the rest of the table combined(although given the timing of some of them I'm pretty sure a good amount of it was having pretty solid card). Commandorcool eliminated 2 short stacks and we were 5 handed and I was the short stack with about 550k and everyone else had about 1m.
On the last hand of 12k/24k, I shoved the button for 520k or so with 44 and doubled through AJo(flop QJT, turn 4) to get up to like 1.1m and be right around the chip lead.
After that we played another whole level 5 handed with average under 30BB without anyone busting before getting to 20k/40k.
Fairly early in the level, I raised SB to 90k with A7s, commandorcool shoved 880k and I called. He had done a lot of 3betting small with a fairly short stack and given I 4bet his last bvb 3bet, I thought it was pretty likely he was value 3betting small with almost all of his good hands(maybe jamming like AT-A8 and 77 though, maybe 1-2 more hands, but also plenty of more marginal hands that I'm in good shape again. If this were the main event I'd have pretty much snap folded given the payouts in that,(actually I'd have just open jammed in the first place) but this one was pretty top heavy(something like 168,95,65,43,33 or something). Anyways, I called and held against QJo to have about 2m when average was 1.1m

A few hands later the SB who I've also played a lot online with shoved 560k with A6o and I called with AKs and held that as well to get to like 2.7m, and the other 2 stacks each had like 800k.
JP4est won some chips off of the other remaining player(who said hes the original the maven... a name he used as his horse racing handle in the 90s and had the phone number like 1900themaven where people would ask for tips or something along those lines) and I won one pot off of JP who misclick 3bet(meant to squeeze 85k's to 250k but made it 300k and I jammed and he folded) and then I got allin A9 against 66 against the maven who only had like 11BB.
Flop: 976
Turn: 9
River: 7
I have a pretty good life and now have a 3.5m-1m chiplead going into HU.

Jeff played really well and mentioned chopping earlier and I knew I'd be super pissed if I lost the HU match after having this huge of a chip lead(which isn't all that unlikely) so we agreed to play it out for 10k and chip chop the rest which gave me like 147 and him like 104, and then early in the match I lost A5o to K9o, then AJo to KK, then blinds went up again and I shoved my 13BB stack with K7s into KK and he held that one too... glad I chopped. It was a pretty fun final table, we knew a lot of the same old school MTTC guys who came out and railed... overall a really fun experience.
Now I'm about to go try to register for the 5k and hopefully keep up the 2010 rungood.