Seat 1: scott3705 ($15,860 in chips)
Seat 2: sunrize12 ($9,070 in chips)
Seat 3: mathdude13 ($6,598 in chips)
Seat 4: BigFishJoe ($10,352 in chips)
Seat 5: freebley ($11,848 in chips)
Seat 6: ringer75 ($5,920 in chips)
Seat 7: blindbasher ($9,058 in chips)
Seat 8: goodbutton ($8,160 in chips)
Seat 9: JOHNNY ALLIN ($12,090 in chips)
Seat 10: Meldred ($12,675 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
scott3705 posts blind ($200), sunrize12 posts blind ($400).

PRE-FLOP
mathdude13 bets $1,400, BigFishJoe folds, freebley folds, ringer75 folds, blindbasher folds, goodbutton folds, JOHNNY ALLIN folds, Meldred folds, scott3705 folds,

A q

75 left, 40 paid.

Villian had shown some goofie hands that he would raise pf from EP. This bet was over his normal though.

Given your stack to blind ratio AQo is an open raise and an easy fold after a raise.

3.5X the BB is over his normal range? That seems weird.

Screams of weakness to me if that is the case (ie. ace jack, pocket tens, etc.). However, your hand IMO isn't strong enough to call a raise here.

At this stage. Yes. 2.5 was his usual PF raise from EP and 2 from LP.
I don't think 3.5 over a normal range is that weird at this sorta mid-late stage condiering it was a 300 man tournament. Most people bring down the raise..

how goofy were the hands? like KJo or 56s? if you've read him as being out of line a few times from utg i would probably take a shot at him with AQo.

it would also depend on avg stack and what not.

At this point, without further information, I wouldn't say betting 1 BB over your norm to be anything of significance.

There are many factors here - for example...what has been the table's norm...and how has the table reacted to 2.5xbb vs 3.5 bb raises....

Many a times I will change my normal bet simply becaues the table is not reacting to my "normal" pf raise the way I want them to - and sometimes that means changing from 3x to 4x to 5x.

If a guy goes from 3x to 6x I may pay more attention.

Table norm has been 2.5 and people aren't giving much action right now outside of a couple desperate short stacks. So if he's on a str8 steal, i can't imagine he'd try to pop it more since 2.5 is gettin the job done.

Also, btw: average stack is around 10kish if I remember correctly. I FTed two tournaments at the same time last night so some of the details are getting jumbled in my head.

Then I'd lean towards putting him on TT-QQ as it looks more like isolation than stealing...he wants some action, so he doesn't pop it to 2000, but he also doesn't necessarily want all the hands that have been calling the standard raises.