Live $50 tournament question...Did I play this right?

[Bad Beaten]

It's the 4th hand, and I look at my cards, happy to see:



I'm BB, we started with 1,000 chips, I'm down to 880 (forced to muck Pocket 10s on the turn when a K came on the flop, forcing a probe bet that just about everyone called, and a J on the turn showed me the writing on the wall.)

Blinds are 5 - 10

SB raises to 50, I rereaise to 150, one of the limpers calls the raise + rereaise, the other folds, the SB calls.

The table has been extremely loose the first 3 hands (3 people on cold called my pocket 10 raise on the first hand, including a T2s that ended up rivering a flush...Play was similarly loose and sloppy on the subsequent hand.), and there was much more calling than raising going on.

Flop comes



I bet 250 (Half the pot) and both players call.

Turn comes



Not seeing any straights or flush, I push my remaining 450 or so chips into the pot, limp-caller calls, SB folds.

Limp caller shows 77 for a flopped set, and the river comes .

Was I right to push my aces on the turn?

Good play on my books, nothing you can do when an idiot catches a monster on you, you are forced to pay him off.

[drmcboy]

I say just move in on the flop. With two in you almost can't make it incorrect to draw, so at least make them pay. I play at similar home game where people just call call call with top pair, second pair, 1 over, etc., and if someone flops a set against my AA I'm paying them off every time.

[Shark Bait]

Same kind of thing happened to me once, except I pushed on the flop and other guy had hit a set on the flop. hard to say because there's not much in the pot yet and a push off the bat is likely to get you around 70 chips or whatever it is if they all fold. Still, if someone raises before me when I have AA, I would consider pushing, just because of the extra chips from his raise.

[djbrown]

I'd go ahead and push all-in after the flop. There's about 500 in there already, so that's more than enough to make you happy if you take the pot right there.

With the amount of chips you had left after the pre-flop raise, it's hard to force the drawing hands out with a bet that wouldn't get you pot committed anyhow. As it was, the second caller after the flop was getting the correct implied odds on his call if he was chasing a flush, so you might as well push all-in right away to destroy the pot odds of any type of draw.

Having said that, playing this hand properly will result in you busting out. That's poker. But it's not the incorrect play.