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[raven_rogue]

I played in a 22 player No Limit Holdem tournament over the weekend.17 players remain in the tournament.I have about $1300 in chips while everyone is about $1500. there are 7 people at the table. the blinds are currently $50-$100I am holding an A-Q offsuited. I am Big Blind.6 players called the big blind (which was me) and it is up to me to act.I figure noone has a good hand enough to raise so I decide to raise and try to remove as many people as possible. from it. but these people wouldnt fold on a couple hundred raise. So I raise $500. My tactic worked because all put one player. but this player goes all in.almost half my chips are in this pot. I am holding the A-Q offsuited and decided it isnt a bad hand to call this All-in raise. the guy shouldnt have anything great since he only called unless he was slow playing his cards. Which most of the guys havent done this at my table and I have played with most of them before. So I called.He flips over K-K.. Shit he slow played a good hand. I know my doom right away. nothing came up on the cards that was turned so I lost.Now I feel my play was correct in trying to scare off people and steal the blinds they put in. unless someone disagree.but my question is. it was still early in the tournament. Should i wait playing this agressive and should have only called without putting a risk to my stack untill i see the flop. and saves these moves till later in the tournament.

[Swift_Psycho]

The average stack is 15x the BB and it's still early in the tourney? Not the ideal structure. I don't think your call was that bad. You don't have much of anything left if you fold, and it's just insanely hard to put someone on K-K there (unless the player had just limped from UTG or UTG+1).

[Smasharoo]

Have someone fluent in English type the post up for you next time. You have to call here if he flips over KK and shows it to you, you should have just pushed all in pre-flop, gotten called and lost.

[Random Fluke]

Smasharoo said:

you should have just pushed all in pre-flop, gotten called and lost.

[Randy Reed]

Actually, I think the $500 bet was wrong. It's early and there's no sense throwing a tourney away for AQo. If you want to raise 3xBB, $300 that should be enough to find out where you are, and leave you room to laydown on the all-in if you have a good read on the opponent. I agree with smash, you might as well just pushed preflop.

[Swift_Psycho]

Randy Reed said:

Actually, I think the $500 bet was wrong. It's early and there's no sense throwing a tourney away for AQo. If you want to raise 3xBB, $300 that should be enough to find out where you are, and leave you room to laydown on the all-in if you have a good read on the opponent. I agree with smash, you might as well just pushed preflop.

$300 would be a completely pointless raise to make. Frankly, you either check or move in, no in-between raises.