So, this week was the first week of the new season/year of the 4th Street Poker Tour. All points cleared and everything was starting fresh. I was the first one there as always. After getting set up, I paid and picked my seat, I drew Table 1 Seat 1. At my table were: Evan "Grimace", Richie Rich, The First Lady, Susan "High Noon", Eliot "El Bear", and Will Call. Not too bad of a starting table. 4th hand of the tourney I have the button with blinds at 25/25 and look down at AA. I raise to $75, SB folds, and BB(richie Rich) calls. Flop comes K high, he checks, I bet out $150 and he folds. Phew picked up my first pot of the night, and against Rich, he said something about me being on a draw, which kinda made me feel like I didnt show off too much that I had AA. After that don't really play many hands, call 1 raise from Eliot when I was in SB with AQo, missed the flop and check folded. My stack dwindled down to about $1325 until I picked up QQ and raised it to $325(blinds 50/100). Susan re-raises me all-in. I call, she shows KJ and my QQ hold up so I double up. Shortly after that I get moved to table 3 where I steal a few blinds early, and then just have to keep folding to people going all-in. Even folded AQ when UTG raised it to $1000, I am UTG+1 and see AQ, thought about moving all-in, but the chip leader was behind me and still left to act, so I folded because I didnt want him to pick up a hand and call my all-in and knock out both of us. Then after the blinds and antes getting too big and my stack getting shorter and shorter, I am in big blind, chip leader on button raises it, I look down at ATs, I go all-in, for like $500 more, so obviously I know he is going to call, and he has QQ, no A or spades come and I am out in 12th.
I feel that I played fairly well, definitely not my best, but definitely not my worst. I might have played a bit too passive, but then again it all depends on the situations. I've been working a lot of different things lately that I think will help my game out tremendously. So I am not worried about not getting any points on Thursday, there are still 11 games left in this season.
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