I've been having a run of 3rd place finishes. Not something I could complain about much, since I was consistently hitting the money, but not quite what I'd like to be seeing. Just as I'm making this consideration, I take first (and apparently played well enough to have the 2nd place player scared when it got to heads up - he asked to chop 3 times, once even while he had the chip lead!).

So things are going pretty well. I'm currently at $3872, showing $372 progress toward the goal.