Getting to The Finals

I have been really pretty sick this week. I have a bad cough and just feeling run down. Finally went to the doctor's on Wednesday and got some antibiotics and cough medicine. I am feeling about 90% today, which is a big improvement. I played a couple of times this week, but my heart just wasn't in the game...lost a little won a little, broke even. I have been very hot online, cashing in 14 of the last 20 tournaments I have played. Saturday was my flight for the big $10000 added tournament and I felt o.k., not great, just o.k. I warmed up with three sitngo's, winning one, and cashing in another. My flight was not a particularly tough one, but all of them are challenging in one way or another. I got some very good hands (pocket kings 5 times, and pocket aces once), but other than one big pot won mostly blinds with them. You know how sometimes one player just owns you? Bonnie was my personal nemesis. If I raised, she called. If I limped, she was in the pot, and always seemed to outdo my cards. I probably lost over 15,000 in chips to her over the course of the tournament. I did mention that I had pocket kings 5 times, my big hand with her was my big big blind vs. her small blind on the final table. She limped in, I raised all-in and she called me with A/10 offsuit. I really feared the worse with my past luck against her, and kings being ace magnets and all, but they held up and I knocked her out. There were two other memorable hands, I had about 30,000 in chips, looking to coast to final 5 with 6 players left. Kevin escaped an all-in as short stack, then that honor went to Nam. He pushed with KJ and I quickly called with AQ. The flop no help, same with turn, then a jack on the river doubled him up. I became the short stack and went all-in twice with no callers, picking up the 9000 in blinds and got back in the game. Kevin finally pushed with pocket 2's, and I again called with AQ. Flop kk7, turn 4, river 7, two pair with an Ace kicker! Our flight was over and I was chip leader with 50,000 to carry over to the finals today!!! Because I wanted to go to Portland on Sunday to help my daughter with "Pugcrawl" sales of her t-shirts (see them online @ http://www.saybone.com/), if I had made the finals with insignificant chips I was planning to forfeit...so good and bad.....