Runner-Runner-Rebuy

Got 3rd in the Math last night after getting smacked in the head with the deck early on. Here's a quick synopsis.

My QQ cracked Bayne's AA early on to double me up.
AA held up against KK to get me to 10K against pvanharibo.
Pushmonkey22 gave me a gift by calling all in with bottom pair against my KK overpair - up to 16K
Won a race with Fuel55 and my 99 makes a set against AQ - 20K
K7 pushes against my AJ and I hit 2 pair to get to 23K
Slowly get up to 30k, all the big stacks are at my table.
Double up surf when my 77 runs into 99 (both over pairs to the board) - down to 22K
Get pushed around with re-raises when I have shit, and no action on KK twice, QQ, AKs twice, AJs, AA twice.
Double up through surf with AQ vs JJ - 27K
Get to 44K when I beat bartonf's AQoff with KJs in a 60-40. Not quite a suckout Hoy, but close.
I double up twoblackaces on a miss timed re-raise steal and he calls with QQ to my K8.
3 handed goes on for a while as chips leads are traded around.
Bust in 3rd, boat over boat to two black aces, who goes on to win it all.

3rd place sucks. With the hands I was getting, I should have run away with an easy win. I got really lucky with my hands early, but then got no action late with good hands. Hoy pushed me around a bit, and then everyone jumped in. My biggest problem is not knowing what hands I can call likely re-raise steals with when playing 6-handed. Surf really used his stack well, and I should learn something from that. It's easy to win with monsters, but I need to work on short handed hand ranges. I'll have to study my short handed stats on people and see how they compare.