TPT season 3 recap

It's been almost 4 months since the 3rd season of Taiwan Poker tour has started, and hundreds of people turned every week to fight for the points leading to the final game (Top 20), and closing on the end of April, with two weeks left in the regular season games, I was ranked 25th and knew had to push myself more in the remaining games if I would ever make it to the top 20, and pushing myself I did, as of the first week of April, I final tabled the online tourney busting 4th following by a win in tourney 20 which I felt, put me back on the right track to go on and make 2 more final tables within the 3 tourneys left, busting 3rd (99vsA10 852210) and 6th and with that, climbed up the ladder all the way to 3rd in the final standings with about 7900 points which will convert in chips for the final game.

The final game was held on Sunday 15th and the cards flew at 2pm with about 23 players competing for 3 top prizes (Trip to Macau for 2+accommodation+3K hk$ event entry/2nd Ipad 32g/3rd netbook) and I managed to steal pots, turn up the aggression and grind my stack to about 20K taking the chip lead as well, about 4 hours later we were down to the final 9 and the blinds were starting to get really high and right after the 9th player busted, I raised with A9s and the Big blind jammed on top, given the odds, I couldn't fold there and was hoping I was against some Kx or Qx, instead he had 10s and the flop came with a 9, turn giving me a bunch more outs with a diamond and I bricked on the river doubling him up and having my stack shrunk to about 10bbs with the blinds at 800/1600 and not too long after that, I went for Jam steal from the blinds but ran into the AJo from the big blind and that was that, I was certainly disappointed but as I'm someone who's always on the move, I quickly kicked away the bad vibes and started contemplating the online tourneys I had scheduled as well as the Macau poker cup starting May 27th which I look forward to!