Critique this hand please... AA in the money with 2nd biggest stack

[FuriousD]

This was a 10+1 NL HE tourney with about 900 paricipants. There were about 95-100 players left at this point. My stack was about twice the average stack size, if I recall correctly.

The main villian (big stack) was a fairly new arrival to the table. I don't think he had much info on me. The other players probably thought of me as a bit of a bully.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

<font color="#C00000">MP2 (t5450)</font>
MP3 (t17792)
CO (t2184)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t20696)</font>
<font color="#C00000">SB (t5239)</font>
BB (t8730)
UTG (t4795)
UTG+1 (t4345)
<font color="#C00000">MP1 (t28274)</font>

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t1600</font>, MP2 calls t1600, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t4000</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t5189</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls t3589, MP2 calls t3589, Hero calls t1189.

Flop: (t21056) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
MP1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets t211 (All-In)</font>, Hero calls t211, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t1600</font>, Hero calls t1389.

Turn: (t24467) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players, 1 all-in)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t1600</font>, Hero calls t1600.

River: (t27667) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players, 1 all-in)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t4000</font>, Hero calls t4000.

Final Pot: t35667


Let me say that I'm not proud of the way I played this. That may be because I'm still feeling disappointed at the result of this tournament that I played fairly well otherwise -- I don't recall any glaring mistakes I made in other hands.

Results will follow.