[Chimp__greg]

I don't like any play here but I reluctantly fold.

I'm not familiar at all with bigger tournaments, but if this is a donk who's jumping up to play in this for some fun (or satted in, I'm not familiar with this tournament), he very well could be protecting A9/A5 from draws that he fear may check behind that might be able to fear their kicker.

Any raise to find out where you're at pot commits you, and you don't want to get all your chips in w/ only a pair and a weak kicker.

A call is the other option in my mind but I don't really like it, I guess if a spade comes and he looks afraid of it then you can try and rep it, but if he C/Rs you you might have to fold leaving yourself w/ 800-1000. And if a non-spade comes and he fires more then you still have no more information than when he made this bet, leaving you with an even tougher call.

I'd just fold here, his range is probably A9/A5/AQ/87s-T9s, NFD 4/5 of the time, and a set of nines or fives the other 20%.

You're pretty far behind to everything but a flush draw.

Being an occasional satellite donk myself, this looks like (if there are satellites to this tourny, I'm not sure what it is) a nervous satellite player trying to protect his A9/55/99 from a flush draw. This would be a weird play for a donk, IMO.... they're more fond of the check-call. AQ is possible but unlikely, IMO. He'd call pre-flop but probably would check or at least not PSB the flop.