Ok, this is a fairly simple hand, I'd just like to get the consensus on what to do here.

Hero: 8k
Villain: 12k
Other: 12k

Blinds 300/600.

3rd place money back, 1st 50%, 2nd 37.5%.

Hero has dominated all game with about 12k, but is getting bullied/trash 3 way.

Villain is a novice, has played very tight all game, but seems to have got a lot more agressive 3 way, esp. pre-flop.

Other folds.

SB: Villain calls.

BB: Hero looks at KQo.

Do you

a ) check
b ) raise
c ) push
?

As I say basic stuff really, but I'd just like to be told.

There is a Tourney Strat.... but no check. Raise it, no All-In.

I raise enough to make them uncomfortable with calling it but not enough to jepordize my whole stack. It depends on the players what this amount would be. In general around 2000.

i raise to 2200

What do you do if you blank the flop?

Cheers for the replies - mostly as I was expecting to hear. It's not all-in or fold stage at that point.

In fact, I pushed, and ran into AA. Oops!

Partly I was got a bit frustrated, and partly, I'd had AK a few hands before against the same player and raised with it and had to fold on a J high flop to a massive over bet, so I was a bit scared about playing a flop with this guy after that!

Also, I think I felt like more of a short stack than I was, having hit the ground with a bump after dominating. I should have let the other two guys out-agress each other (although I was playing to win, not come 2nd despite the relatively much bigger gap between 3rd and 2nd and 2nd and 1st in this game).

The flop came Q btw, so as it happened I would have been fairly screwed either way.