akashenk

Right off the top I am willing to admit I made at least one mistake in this hand, but I'm trying to convince myself my final decision wasn't horrible. Any thoughts, including calling me the worst player ever, would be welcome.Background:1) On the bubble2) Started hand with 24BB. Avg stack probably about 16BB.3) In position agains villain.4) AJs in the holeA little more info:1) The villain was on a serious rush (4 double ups in the last 30 minutes) and now had more chips than me, the previous chip leader at the table).2) Two of his rush dubble ups were achieved by sucking out on me and playing some fairly questionable hands.3) A min cash was irrelevent and there were about 15 players to go through till real money could be won.The hand:1) Villain limps late and I raise 2.5BB w/ AJs.2) Villain Reraises to 10BB and I call3) Villian shoves all in ~20BB in the dark4) Flop is A, rag, rag rainbow.5) Villain starts giving speeches. I tank for an etermity and eventually call all in.6) Villain turns over AA and I bubble :(My Analysis:1) I really felt like there was no way the villain had a big Ace when he reraised preflop. First off, he had been raising with Ax all day (why would he all of a sudden limp late reraise when the blinds got so big?). I thought he had a pair and given the limp raise, could have any pair between 88 and AA. My call with AJ was probably what I regret most, as I was likely in a coin flip situation at best.2) The villain's shove in the dark and speeches screemed AA, so while I eventally called, his tactics weren't what did it. I pretty much put him on AA or KK at that point. It was a classic, I'm either dead or way ahead situation.I finally decided that, while he could have AA, the chances of me flopping top pair and him flopping top set were remote enough to push me towards believing he had KK.Additional thoughts:1) I didn't really care about bubbling. In fact, one of the things I considered was that a double up at that point would put me in good position to make a run at one of the top payouts while a fold after the flop would cause me to have to limp into the money and hope to win some races.2) LIke I said my main regret is the call pre-flop, where it was pretty unlikley that I was in any sort of dominating posiiton and could have easily been dominated (as the case turned out to be). I think the call was mostly a result of my annoyance with this particualr player and his recent run of good luck against me.3) While folding after the flop would certainly have been the safe play (especially if I were wrong about him not having AK or AQ), I'm trying to convince myself my all-in call wasn't the worst play ever. If I really cared about cashing, I would have folded and moved on to the next hand, but that wan't my primary concern.Any thoughts?