I have AQ and uncertainty

[Deanglow]

$530 satellite to IPT Venice. Like 17 left and 3 get paid. I doubled up early when my JJ>KJo on a J67 board. Preflop raiser is a spastic donk who flats a lot preflop. BU seems OK; he once check/folded to me as the preflop raiser on AK2dd. What do you do and what is the plan?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $500+$30 Tournament, 40/80 Blinds (7 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) (t5110)
UTG (t3430)
MP1 (t3575)
MP2 (t3145)
CO (t3640)
Button (t4410)
SB (t1870)

Hero's M: 42.58

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, A
3 folds, CO bets t240, Button calls t240, 1 fold, Hero

[Percival]

Tough situation here, but fortunately you are the big stack, and so can afford a hit to your stack. We know the button doesn't have AA, KK, AK, AQ, or QQ else he'd be reraising so you should be good. The donk raiser could have most anything as you've stated. There's no reason to believe you are beat here by anything more than a coin flip pocket pr. If you want to play this hand with certainty then you HAVE to reraise here to see where you stand, and to hopefully isolate. I normally reraise 3x the bet plus extra for a caller. In this case you need to put major pressure on the donk. Reraising 1200-1500 will send the message that he's going to be playing for his stack. If he calls then you re-evaluate after the flop. If he pushes preflop, then take the fold and still have a healthy stack.

[Warpe]

I call and take a flop.

[chardrian]

Option 1 is to call and just play postflop. You're OOP, but most tourney players don't understand stack depth very well so play really poorly postflop which compensates for your positional disadvantage.

Option 2 is to 3 bet, but this then breaks down into two options because stacks are in that awkward 40-60 BB range where you can 3-bet/fold or 3-bet/get-it-in depending on your opps. If you want to get it in against the original raiser I would raise to 1/3 of his stack (about 1200) and then call if he shoves or shove most flops if he calls. If you want to raise to define your hand (which seems like the worst of these two options given your read of a spastic opp) then raise to like 700ish and fold if he shoves.

[drmcboy]

i call since you have BU sandwiched

[revolvingiris]

I was going to vote call as well but I wanted to wait for more experienced players than I to respond.

[Im_new]

I was going to vote call as well but I wanted to wait for more experienced players than I to respond.

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