Did I play this right?

[Eastwood1131]

I was playing a MTT tournament last night which started with about 250 players. It was a € 33 buy-in at party poker. Top 30 players get paid.

I was doing ok. I play a tight aggressive game and won some big pots. With only 35 players left I had a middle to lower sized stack compared to the rest of the field.

I was playing the same table for quite some time and had a good read on most of the players. Then I got kicked out of the tournament.

I was under the gun and got dealt AcQc. The blinds were 800/1600 and my stack size was about 18000. I raised 3BB to 4800. Everyone folded except for player no.7, who called. Player no 7 was a loose aggressive player. He played a lot of pots, and his stack size was about 24000. I figured he wasn’t holding premium hands as he didn’t reraise me which I saw him do in earlier pots.

I put him on pocket pairs or AT or lower. The flop came Ad, Qh, Ts. Good flop for me I got two top pair. I raised with 4800 again and he put me all-in!

If he had had the pocket pairs this was a bluff. But this would be very dangerous for him, as he knows I am a tight player who must have something considering my pre- and post-flop raises. I also eliminated the possibility he had pocket pairs. The possibility he had AA/KK/QQ was very slim because I figured he would have raised me pre-flop and because I was holding AQ and the board showed AQ the chances were little he was holding top pair. That left me with only two possibilities. He hit trips tens or was holding KJ for a straight.

I thought about it for some time put him on AT or lower and called. He was actually holding KJ, had hit a straight, the turn was 8s and the river 7h and I was out of the tournament.

My question is: was I right to call his all-in bet? Did I get unlucky or should I have folded? Did I make the right assumptions?

[AHiltz]

AA, AT, QT, KJ, J9 are all in his range. The fact that he called prefiop instead of raising like usual should set off some alarms.

Yes you should have called the all-in. You have over half your stack in there now.

Before you even bet preflop, assuming there are no antes, your M is 7.5. I just shove here.

[davekp2003]

Coldrbook hello from New Brunswick. In my opinion I don't think he's calling a 3xBB floop with Q9. Before I saw the answer I was immediately thinking KJ.

Again I'm no where near as experienced as most on here but I was just having this conversation with some friends. I was playing a cash game Sat night the pot was $100, a woman sitting beside me had A8 the flop came AT8 she raised $50 her opponent check raised her all in. He had been playing very solid poker all night. I sat there praying she didn't call as she was chasing everything down. She calls he turns over pocket TT.

The moral of the story is that when someone bets the flop or turn like that I would say they usually have the goods. I see it all the time online even at the mico-level. Someone is sitting there then put someone all in they call the raiser has a nut straght or flush. What I do is avoid all in unless I have very close to the nuts.

I know you had a lot invested in that pot but you still would have had 8400 left if you folded. Hmmm that would give you an M of 3.5 and leaving you with just pushing all in when you get cards. In this case damned if you do damned if you don't.

Dave

Just my two cents now someone correct me and tell me the right thing to do.

[dsmrolla06]

You have to call there. Hes more likely to have AK, AJ, AT and be pushing over than having KJ. KJ was probly the first thing that came to your mind because it was the nuts and its probly just as bad of a leak to think someone always has the nuts as thinking someones always bluffing. You have to figure your top two is good here.

[XTR1000]

i can´t see a reason to fold here. you´re ahead of his range and against KJ/TT u still have 6 outs to draw out on him.
pot is ~29k u have roughly 8k left in your stack, offering you better than 3.5:1.