So here's what happened

My stack is up to about $25,000, it's level 3 and the blinds are 100-200. The UTG player raises to 800 and it's folded to me on the button with JJ. I call, as does the small blind who has about the same amount of chips as me, and who won his seat by a drawing and has never played a live tournament in his life, and is putting horrid beats on everyone. The flop comes AJ7 rainbow, and the small blind bets out 1000. The original raiser calls, and I raise 3500 more to 4500, the small blind instantly calls, and the original raiser folds. Turn is a K, completing the rainbow and small blind bets out 3000. I am about 75% sure he just nailed his gutshot, but with the size of the pots and outs, I call. River is a T, putting a 4 card straight out, and small blind bets out 2000. I call and he shows QT for the turned straight, and I'm sitting at about 14,000 when I just had about 25,000, boo. And that was the only hand that I can say I was disappointed by. Up to that point, I never dropped below about 9,800 (we started with 10,000) so I was never even close to being all-in, and after that point I kept cool and worked it back up to 24,650, where I now stand. So yeah, I made day 2. It's about an average stack, so I can't complain.

I play next on Wednesday at noon, Vegas time. But for now, SLEEP. I'll post more hands when I get up... later today. Whew!