Aussie Millions

So I've decided to fly to Australia for the Aussie Millions and to take a 2-week vacation in the sun. Therefore I've made it my top priority to win a tournament package. My first attempt was last night at bwin, where there was a $650+50 qualifier with 51 players, which guaranteed 1 $20k package for 1st place. I started off slow, but eventually began to really take over. The quality of play at bwin is pretty astonishing it become especially apparent in this tourney because it was exclusive to bwin players.

I became chipleader with two tables left and continued to gradually build my stack. Unfortunately my image took some hits when I got caught getting funky with J6o, but most players were too scared to make a stand. Eventually we hit the final table and I remained chipleader until we were 3-handed. One of my opponents was mega passive, constantly complaining about his cards in the chatbox, while the other opponent was super-loose, but in a very strange way. He would constantly defend his blinds with J4o, 93, etc. claiming "thecort you like bluff way too much." In theory it's great for me when he's defending those trash hands, but he was flopping miracles with them, which ended up crippling my stack immensely.

Before I knew it we were HU and he had 120k, I had 40k. I managed to double up once, but it was unfortunately not enough. He put a solid amount of pressure on me and eventually I shoved Q7s with 8 BBs, he called with A7o and I got no help. I was pretty disappointed as you can imagine, but I'll continue to try and get a package tonight. I was supposed to fly to Prague tonight but since all the Aussie Millions qualifiers are running tonight, I just booked a new flight for tomorrow so I can play all the qualis at home this evening. I'm gonna make this...