I admit, there is nothing worse than going out of a tournament on the bubble, but cruising through the bubble as one of the chip leaders, going deep into the tourney and then crashing out just short of the big money, must come close.

This happened to me last night.

Stars $35k gtd $10 w/ rebuys. 1139 players, prizepool $48280, 1st place: $12070

I haven't played many tourneys in these last few months so I'm taking this as a learning curve again.

I rebought right away to get 3000 chips, i didn't rebuy again and added on to end the rebuy period with about 8500, not great but workable. I managed to work this down to about 2500 within 30 minutes by calling, drawing and missing. (What a donk!)

So from the 2500 i thought "f*ck i really need to tighten up or i'm going out here" By the end of the 2nd hour i managed to work my way up to 17000 "phewww"

During 3rd hour i managed to double that up and more when i caught KK v QQ and was sitting about $45000 when the following rush...

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