This has been a productive night. Not only did I study a good bit, but I played some poker and won... a bit. $2,966.40. Minus $26 for the entry. That's 3rd place out of 1200 entrants. I rarely buy in to a tourney with such a large buy-in (for me). Normally I would try to satelite in, but on a lark, I decided to try. Turns out that not only did I play some great poker, with some awesome folds and fatastic reads, but I got lucky enough not to get sucked out on. At least till my final hand, which was also one of the best calls I ever made. Lady luck rivered me out of the tourney. Here's how it went down:

I've got about 300k, the other two guys have 750k or so. On the button I get AKo (no clubs), and raise 4BBs. SB folds, BB calls. Flops is 9T2, all clubs. He goes all-in. I think for a while, decide he's on a draw at best, and call. He turns over J3, with one club. Turn is a blank, river is a 3, game over. 2nd was another $1000, and 1st would have been $6.3k. But this is still pretty nice.