Played till wayee too late

So, bleeding eyes and all i sat down at a $4.40, 180 on stars after posting last night. What seemed like an eternity later i busted in 7th for $24. Fookin feel like a millionaire these days. Once again i will say i should have done better. My 99 lost to A2 off suit (humph) and i went into the final table towards the bottom of the tree.

I decided once again to make some push plays once we were down to 8. I managed to induce some folds and then my A10 was called by K10. I am happy to report that despite this event taking place on Stars the flop did not come KKK and i was able to double up to go second. This put everyone on about equal standings.

We didn't wee a flop for about a year, everything was decided pre flop and this got even worse when the blinds were 1k/2k and everyone was on about 30k. Some guy won a load after calling a reraise all in w AJ and hitting the A against the reraisers KK. it was to be this "ace catcher" that would be my undoing.

I lost a good chunk after trying to steal the blinds and getting reraised and having no real hand to call with call with. I moved up a gear again and would begin making all in moves with the Sklansky/ Kill Phil hands. This worked well as everyone was obviously eager to make more money. I did too but i'd rather give myself the best chance to win it all.

On my final hand, after not seeing anything higher than a Q for what seemed like ages, i raised all in w "ace catchers" hand of AJ only to find a divine role reversal, with "ace catcher" having pocket kings. As he was in charge of "ace floppage" he obviously didn't give me one and i am gone.

What i learned - I could have been more patient at the final table. Especially in retrospect of that AJ with players still to act after me. I should have payed more attention to the fact that despite blinds it is still the equivalent of an STT and should have played tighter. I had actually thought i was doing a good thing here though by going against the general flow of the otherwise tight table. Alas, the win once again eludes me.

My most recent standings in these look like this. It's better but not good enough.
1 - 7th
2 - 121st
3 - 12th
4 - 14th
5 - 116th
6 - 172nd
7 - 20th

Interesting fact at the table. I ran everyone through Official Poker Rankings - there was a player at the table, i was going to mention his name, but i won't. He has won over 18k in prizes but has a negative profit. Pretty sick. I don't want to be in that spot should i get a couple of wins in the bag.