| Horrible Play???
I play in a weekly home tourney, usually 20-30 players. Last night was only 14. To set up the situation, we're down to 4 players, 3 get paid: (50 - 100 - 200 structure)
I'm in second chip position UTG (T4500-5000 approx). blinds are 300-600. Chip leader is in the BB. He's got me covered by 10x probably. Other two players are getting short stacked. I pick up KQo. I raise to T1800. 2 folds, and the BB says he can push all in and there is no way I can call because were on the bubble and the other two players are short stacks. He pushes. I go into the tank, because he's pretty much right. I fold, he shows AJo. Good fold. (friggin dealer decided to rabbit hunt the board and it came KQxTQ) so that sucked!
I think If I was going to play that hand, I should have raised all in preflop, that way the BB can't put me in a bad spot with a reraise. But that would be stupid too, because I'm in good position to make the money. Couple hands later I had to fold KJs in a blind to the big stacks raise.
Anyway, one of the short stacks busts out, we're in the money. I'm still in 2nd. I'm UTG with T2000, blinds 400-800. Shortstack is in SB with T525.
BB is bigstack with approx T18000.
I pick up A2o and push. BB goes into the tank, flips up his 89o. (we allow teahousing heads up) I flip up my A. He thinks some more and calls, hit's an 8 on the flop and I'm done. In hindsight I think my flipping the A might have hurt. I think he pretty much figured when I only showed one card that I only had one over card.
Now, why I made that push I don't really know. All I had to do was fold and the SB was going to have to call his last 125 into the pot. I've been feeling like this was a horrible play. Everyone else said the same.
But now, I'm trying to figure out my reasoning. At that point the SB and BB have random hands. For all I know the SB will double up and then be on the button the next hand, while I'll be in the BB and facing an automatic all in raise from the bigstack. If I don't pick up a hand there, I may have to fold and now I'm posting another 400 in the small blind facing another raise from the bigstack. Of course the short stack would be in the BB with a stack of T1050 (if he doubled through the previous hand) He can't fold to the Bigstack's UTG raise, so I could fold there as well. Now I'm down to 800 and hoping the shortstack doesn't double through again.
I guess I was thinking that A high was going to be good, which it was preflop, and that the BB would perhaps fold, and that my stack wasn't really big enough to be a guarantee to fold into 2nd.
What do you guys think about the situation  | 
