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First hand of a $25 Turbo SNG on Stars.

PokerStars Game #5637804615: Tournament #28522330, $25+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/07/21 - 23:39:48 (ET)
Table '28522330 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: swinger18 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: Edema (1500 in chips)
Seat 3: Olivia01 (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: samie24 (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Grub (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: mizzou1234 (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: DUCO424 (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: pots34 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Foaming_H (1500 in chips)
Edema: posts small blind 10
Olivia01: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Foaming_H [Ad Qh]
samie24: calls 20
Grub: folds
mizzou1234: calls 20
DUCO424: raises 20 to 40
pots34: folds
Foaming_H: calls 40
swinger18: calls 40
Edema: folds
Olivia01: calls 20
samie24: calls 20
mizzou1234: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [3c Ac 5d]
Olivia01: bets 20
samie24: raises 120 to 140
mizzou1234: calls 140
DUCO424: calls 140
Foaming_H: calls 140
swinger18: raises 1320 to 1460 and is all-in
Olivia01: folds
samie24: calls 1320 and is all-in
mizzou1234: folds
DUCO424: folds
Foaming_H: folds
*** TURN *** [3c Ac 5d] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [3c Ac 5d 5h] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
samie24: shows [2c 6c] (a pair of Fives)
swinger18: shows [Ah 3s] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
swinger18 collected 3610 from pot

Did I play that awfully?

First hand is always tricky.

I personally would have bet more pre-flop, but with an all in and a call I would expect one of them to have to have flopped  2 pair at least so I agree with the fold there.

So my way I would have just lost more chips.

Just fold this on the flop first time round.. theres been a bet, a raise, and two callers before the action gets to you, your hand is so rarely good here its not worth putting in close to 10% of your stack. Granted it was good this time, but thats only after a pretty sick chain of events on the turn. top pair moderate kicker is ahead here on the flop almost never, dont dribble chips away