The New Year begins

I hope you all had a good New Years. I finally got through all the holidays and the personal issues like moving my mom to her new place, so it's time to get back in gear. I did play once or twice over the holidays but nothing interesting to report. This morning I went with my brother to 2 for 1 day at Pechanga. I was like a house a fire the first few blinds. Every time I played to show down, I won. I made a few good moves to win other pots. I should say at this point that they changed their format... we got 4000 in chips and they started taking antes at 200-400. After my great beginning I had about 12-13000 in chips. Things of course started to go cold and with the blinds rising an the antes coming into play, my stack was starting to come back to the pack. At one point I hit pocket 3's two hands in a row and one hand a few hands later. The first one I gave serious consideration to calling... if I had gone over the top all in and not let a third player get involved my 3's would have held up. As it was I folded and a 3rd guy called an won the hand. The second time I laid them down to a raiser and would have lost if i had played. The third time blinds were 500/1000 and I was in first or second position (all the other times I was in late position making my read easier) and decided to raise to 3000 (about a third of my stack)and hopefully get no callers or maybe just one. Unfortunately, three players went all in and I was getting 4 to 1 on my money... I had to call and hope it held or I could catch another three. Well of course that didn't happen and it was just a couple of hands before I went out. But it felt good to be back in the saddle and hopefully we'll start making the money again this week.