Did I play this right? Tournament last night with seven players. Three have gone out. I was the big stack previously but tight play combined with bad cards have left me a bit short of the other three players. Buy-in was for $2500 in chips (with a rebuy that I didn't exercise); at this point I've got about $4500, other players have between 5500 and 15000. I'm in the big blind, which is currently at 300.

The two players outside the blinds fold. Small blind sees the 300 and raises 1000. My hand is pocket aces. Here's my question: do you call, raise somewhat, or raise all-in? My move was the aggressive one. I was thinking that it gave me the best chance to make him lay down his hand, and if he called I stood a good chance to nearly bust him out and double myself up. So I moved all-in and he called me. Turns over K-Q suited.

Before I get to the aftermath... I think I had to raise in this situation, just calling is weak. What I'm still not sure about is if I should have left myself some outs. I wonder if I'm too aggressive for tournament play. If I had only raised another 1000, for example, I would have still had 2200 left when...

...the flop came 9-10-J and he busted me out with the luckiest POS straight I've ever seen.