Going Deep

I am playing larger tournaments that I tended to stay away from before. I have been using up poker points to try to qualify for the bigger 100 - 250K tournys. Here are my efforts:

Full Tilt
Phase 1 250K: Top 30 get Phase II - earned ticked out of 300
Phase II: Top 12 Got ticket to phase II out of 380 - got ticket
Phase III: Top 3 get ticket to 250K (1000$ buy in) - finished 7th out of 324
Absolute Poker
Phase I 100K: Top 30 get Phase II - earned ticket out of 1000
Phase II 100K: Top 32 Get ticket to 100K (approx 100$ buy in) - finished 35
Phase I 100K: in first when finished - earned Phase two out of 450
Phase II 100K: Top 26 get ticket to 100K - finished 27th out of 274 - yes the bubble!

Hollywood Poker:
5000$ guarantee rebuy: out of 1500 entrants, top 160 money - with no rebuy or add on I finished 227th - taken out be set over set - more understandable than some I hit my set he had an overpair and hit his set on the river.

There have been others but I dont remember all the results.

Net net I would say I think that is where my efforts should go. Large tournys are a good marriage between the larger pay outs of cash yet with a smaller exposure.

I am happy with the deep runs but very frustrated when a bad beat took me out of all the big ones. Both the 250K and the 100K lost to set over set.

Again today was in 4th crusing to a ticket the Phase II - then board 675 I have 66, I nicely doub le up the guy with 77. Then I am all in AA and the guy with 88 hits a set - first card. Then AK suited and a miss....

In 48 hours I have lost four tournys to set over set. For example in the 250K (7th place finish) pocket 99 - lots of chips so I call one guys all in (two callers). flop 9 8 2 - Push all in, the other guy also calls with 2/3 of my stack - he has JJ .... J on river.
The last hand that put me on life support and I am sure I made a mistake here - guy before me bets 12K he has 30 total - I push - about 127K to isolate him with AK suited. someoene comes with us with 10 10 and I dont hit. After that it's down to a good card and luck for my all in push and a seventh place finish.

I think if I can money somewhere over the rainbow I might take some serious runs at larger small buy in tourny's. I think I am close to hitting here...