is this a bad preflop call?

[bsidensol]

I am UTG with AK offsuit in a 7 person home game tourney. Blinds are 50-100 and I have about 1600 in chips. I make it 350 to go, and the button, with 1000 chips left, calls.

Flop is 8 9 3 rainbow. Button has 650 left and I decide to put him all in, reasoning that if he has 2 high cards or has otherwise missed the flop he should fold. Turns out he had 89 suited, flopped top 2 pair and won the hand.

Question is, is this a bad play by him preflop? He committed a third of his stack on a drawing hand when he had just 10x the big blind. In my opinion he made a bad call because he is putting a lot of pressure on himself to flop something, and if he misses he'll be even more short stacked, now with little if any fold equity.

In retrospect I wish I had made it about 450 to go. But is this a bad play by him?

[Jeff76]

His call was horrible. Your raise was fine, as was the push on the flop. There is no need to make it 450 to go PF.

[BallinPro]

unless ur table is donks

[tannenj]

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he had 89 suited, flopped top 2 pair and won the hand.

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is this a bad play by him preflop?

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it was obviously not a bad play, he won the hand.

[MoneyBags]

i agree wit jeff and disagree with tennenj. Its a tournament not a cash game. Calling off that much off his stack with a less than average hand is bad play.

[HokieGreg]

he is obv better than you OP, sorry

[bsidensol]

I posted this same thread on another forum, and the consensus is that I should have just moved all in (which would have been 1600 to win 150). Not sure I agree with this. The argument being, most home games are nofoldem holdem and someone's gonna call me regardless. If blinds were 100-200 I would have just moved in.