[Fantam]

I played this hand yesterday in a MTT, and would welcome thoughts on preflop and flop play.

This tourney started with over 1,200 players and changing tables did not allow for good reads.

I think that the average chip stack for the tourney was about t7,000 or so at the time of this hand.

Blinds were t200/t400 and antes of t20, and table was 9 handed.

Chip stacks were: UTG - t4,565, UTG+1 - t6,465, UTG+2 - t2,685, MP1 - t3,595, MP2 - t6,835, CO - t5,470, Bttn - t9,475, SB (Hero) - t8,895, BB - t10,030.

Dealt to Hero A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

UTG+1 (t6,445) calls t400
Bttn (t9,455) calls t400
SB (Hero) (t8,875) calls t200

Flop (A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]) (t1,780)

Hero (t8,675) bets t1,500
UTG+1 (t6,045) raises to t4,000
Bttn (t9,055) pushes all in to t9,055

Pot has now become t16,335 and Hero has t7,175 left.

1.) I am interested to know whether people like the preflop call from the SB, or whether they would prefer a raise .

2.) I am also interested to know whether people think that calling the flop all in with TPGK is automatic or not.

All comments appreciated. I would consider that I am more experienced in limit play than NL, but am trying to improve my NL game. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]