PokerStars $20,000 Reload Final ITM Finish 06-28-09

Okay... if I can keep my eye lids open.. lol... I finished ITM in one of the PS Reload Finals I played today. Finished 52nd out of 5,976 entrants for $60! Better than a kick in the teeth lol. This one was the second to last one for the day. I quit the last one to get this done and get some shut eye... lol. First one I was getting closer to the money when I got A,K.... against Q,J.... flop came Q,J,10! I took it all in with the flopped str8 and he caught a J on the river to boat me out! Would have easily put me ITM in that one. The next 2 I played .. got donked hard with runner runner flushes that knocked me out fairly early in those 2... so nothing there either... lol! What a grind in these! It took over 3 1/2 hours to get to the money... so no easy task for sure. I played over 4 1/2 hours to the 52nd place finish. I did get my goal of 1 or 2 ITM finishes in these, but it could have been much better.. should have made the money in at least the first one too.. but such is poker. HAGN Email from PS....

PokerStars Tournament #168309070, No Limit Hold'em
Freeroll
5976 players
$20000.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $20000.00
Tournament started 2009/06/28 19:30:00 ET


Dear datsme53,

You finished the tournament in 52nd place. A $60.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

Very nice finish dats... I told you that you could do it!

$60 is a pretty hefty prize for just a freeroll, congratulations!

way to go dats
very solid in these games . nice finiish in the cash .60bucks is a great payout glad too see my fellow donk doin so well.