Holy 10th to 18th Batman

Since winning the 180 last week i have been playing a lot of mtt's. Any tourney 100 and below. I think in the last week I have finished 10th-18th five times. Anyone who plays tourney's knows that this is the most frustrating position to finish because the money is really small, but so close to huge. I finished 16th in a 100 mtt for $260, when first was 8k, a little frustrating to say the least, but when you combine that with similar finishes in an $11 mtt, $50 mtt, $50 six handed mtt, and a couple 20 180's, it starts to get really frustrating. Funniest tourney I played yesterday was an $11 mtt. I was doing well from the start, until this hand came up. I 3x with KK from the cut off with blinds at 200/400, and the bb makes it 2k more. I shove for 7k more, and he calls with 10c3c. Flop AJ4, turn K, river Q. So now I'm down to 1k in chips. I grind it back up to 17k some how. This this beauty comes up:

PokerStars Game #8238750154: Tournament #41629917, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200) - 2007/02/02 - 02:00:57 (ET)
Table '41629917 21' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: princeturki (10950 in chips)
Seat 2: mookie3131 (21140 in chips)
Seat 3: fishbones11 (17806 in chips)
Seat 4: TheManDan (41505 in chips)
Seat 5: section33 (19705 in chips)
Seat 6: Caribou8 (31829 in chips)
princeturki: posts the ante 75
mookie3131: posts the ante 75
fishbones11: posts the ante 75
TheManDan: posts the ante 75
section33: posts the ante 75
Caribou8: posts the ante 75
fishbones11: posts small blind 600
TheManDan: posts big blind 1200

Holecards
Dealt to fishbones11
section33: raises 1200 to 2400
Caribou8: folds
princeturki: folds
mookie3131: folds
fishbones11: raises 3600 to 6000
TheManDan: folds
section33: calls 3600

Flop (Pot : $13200)


fishbones11: bets 11731 and is all-in
section33: calls 11731

Turn (Pot : $36662)



River (Pot : $36662)



Showdown
fishbones11: shows (three of a kind, Tens)
section33: shows (a straight, Nine to King)
section33 collected 37112 from pot

Summary
Total pot 37112 Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: princeturki folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: mookie3131 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: fishbones11 (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 4: TheManDan (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: section33 showed and won (37112) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 6: Caribou8 folded before Flop (didn't bet).

So that's how I busted from that tourney. Two monster pots where the guy was obv a complete donk tard, and somehow got their chips in the middle and won. After that tourney I ended up winning another $20 180 which was great. Especially because I lost 5 of the 8 all in pots i was involved in on the ft. Feels good to win a tourney when you run bad on the ft. At one point I won 11 of 14 pots without a showdown. So I'm going to continue to play tourney's all weekend, and hopefully I can finally break through with a big win..................