Biloxi 2nd day report

It is after midnight, so this report will be dated the 7th, but for the 6th.  Did the noon tourney @IP again, this time without an overlay. Made it to the final table, but after break time, had less than 10 BB, so I pushed on the dealer button with A9s (diamonds) and bot the blinds woke up with hands, SB was AQs (spades) and BB was a pair of Jacks.  And George the dealer had even mentioned that he was a tournament killer - puts pair v. pair v. pair out there.  Anyway, I hit the flop with a 9, but the turn was a q and the river a blank, and the SB had both of us covered.  Almost any other time, A9s would be pretty strong vs the random Blind hands, but not this time

I then went to the Isle and did there Wednesday night tourney. I remembered it being a bounty tournament, but not a rebuy as well, although as we played it, it got more familiar.  I bought for one entry, hit a couple of hands early, but got felted when I drove 44 a bit to far.  Did a double re-buy up to 6Kt$, and then was moved to another table shortly after.  I finally put an ugly bad beat on someone (not really - it was still in rebuy time, but only a few minutes left, so I wanted to double the stack or be able to top off) when my open ended straight draw hit the river and knocked out top pair.  I did the add-on for another $25 = 6kt$ and we were off to the races when the real poker started.  Real early, the same guy I sucked out on limped in on the button with AK suited and I had A7s in the BB and checked, the flop came an A, I checked and he did a strange min bet.  I figured he might have felt he had kicker problems, but then again, I was the BB and should not have had an A if he had one, so I probably would have bet more.  A 7 came on the river, I bet about 2/3 pot and he went all in.  I had him covered (and thought he might be steaming anyway) so I called with aces up and a J on the river sent him packing.  Way too emotional - he had ranted and raved (silently by pacing around the poker room) after the beat and I knew eventually I could get him to commit to a bad bet sequence.  That was my first bounty, but not my last, I would up taking out 5 others.  I was even pot committed in the BB with 87o and called for just over a another BB to knock out AQo from an UTG AI.  Was the dominant chip lead when we got to 7, but I agreed to a chop, since I had quite a few bounties and I almost always will chop to kill the variance if everyone else agrees.  I probably could have counter offered with a hold out for the 7th place player to cover a buy in and add on, since I had enough chips to weather the action until another player was knocked out, since I usually will suggest a hold out for the bubble when we get down to that point in other tournaments.