work and more fkin work... staking period 2 and GUKPT side events

Been working a ridiculous amount of hours recently, which is knackering me out. Means when I get chance to play poker, I'm shattered. Have cut right back on playing. Finished work early today for once, so had a pop in a few Blonde tournaments, as well as a few on stars. In the 30k on stars, ran up the 3k starting to 12k within 15 mins, out within 70 mins having lost 2 races, both times chips in 1st and ahead. Finalled the 3k $20 on Blonde 4/10, but went mega card dead, abs no spots to shove/push as most of the time, someone was all in b4 it got to me. Its fair to say I was playing tight...

so when I shoved all in on a 9 hi board, showing 3 diamonds, I didn't expect a call from 10 9 h??? I'd raised pre as well. 8th place for not much more than $100 sigh

Played the $33 NL SCOOP event on stars.. comfortably in the money, then quite bluntly get fcuked over...

[ ] good call pre sir

PokerStars Game #26771983927: Tournament #200904081, $30+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIX (1000/2000) - 2009/04/06 2:41:39 WET [2009/04/05 21:41:39 ET]
Table '200904081 1486' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: hamsterboy (13334 in chips)
Seat 2: ohsportsguy (25809 in chips)
Seat 3: unreality0 (53273 in chips)
Seat 4: dillerdopp (48393 in chips)
Seat 5: alimali63 (110546 in chips)
Seat 6: NotABot (71735 in chips)
Seat 7: Thomas823 (122491 in chips)
Seat 8: malle501 (59252 in chips)
Seat 9: amcgrath1uk (40104 in chips)
hamsterboy: posts the ante 250
ohsportsguy: posts the ante 250
unreality0: posts the ante 250
dillerdopp: posts the ante 250
alimali63: posts the ante 250
NotABot: posts the ante 250
Thomas823: posts the ante 250
malle501: posts the ante 250
amcgrath1uk: posts the ante 250
ohsportsguy: posts small blind 1000
unreality0: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to amcgrath1uk [Th Td]
dillerdopp: folds
alimali63: calls 2000
NotABot: calls 2000
Thomas823: folds
malle501: calls 2000
amcgrath1uk: raises 18000 to 20000
hamsterboy: folds
ohsportsguy: folds
unreality0: folds
alimali63: calls 18000
NotABot: folds
malle501: folds
*** FLOP *** [8c 2c Ts]
alimali63: bets 20000
amcgrath1uk: calls 19854 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (146) returned to alimali63
*** TURN *** [8c 2c Ts] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [8c 2c Ts 9h] [As]
amcgrath1uk said, "sigh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alimali63: shows [Qc Jc] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
amcgrath1uk: shows [Th Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
alimali63 collected 88958 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 88958 | Rake 0
Board [8c 2c Ts 9h As]
Seat 1: hamsterboy (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ohsportsguy (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: unreality0 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: dillerdopp folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: alimali63 showed [Qc Jc] and won (88958) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 6: NotABot folded before Flop
Seat 7: Thomas823 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: malle501 folded before Flop
Seat 9: amcgrath1uk showed [Th Td] and lost with three of a kind, Tens

Also using some of my winnings from my live win to play the £100 GUKPT side event on 23rd April, same structure as I'm used to at the place, so just the small matter of slightly better players to try my moves on!!