$5 bubble hand

[eviljeff]

villain is a lag
also, BB has been disconnected for the past few hands

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No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t75/t150
4 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: t1445
Hero: t4585
SB: t4265
BB: t4705

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG calls t150, <font color="cc3333">Hero raises to t800</font>, <font color="cc3333">SB raises to t1450</font>, 2 folds, Hero calls t650.

how bad is this preflop?

Flop: J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (t3200, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero ...

[reed62783]

lol are u scared of QT here.....you shouldnt worry about this...

[MacAnthony]

At the $5 tables? I push in a heartbeat. If he's slow playing, so be it. You have 2 pair 4 handed, how much better do you want to hit the flop? The pot is huge (compaired to stacks) on a coordinated board. I think most people if they had hit woulda at least bet the flop. Since he checked, I push.

[MacAnthony]

To put it another way, if you weren't gonna feel good about 2 pair, you shoulda folded to the reraise before the flop.

[eviljeff]

to clarify: despite his suspicious flop check (suspicious 'cause he's a LAG), I'm not worried about being behind on this flop. I'm worried about extracting value. yes, I know the pot is large compared to our remaining chips, but I wasn't sure this was a definite push.

to be honest, I was expecting responses telling me I shouldn't be involved in this hand when there's 4 remaining and one d/c. anyone play this differently preflop?