PS $6.50 Turbo - AQ back-to-back 75/150 facing raise

[BruinEric]

Setting the stage: I have a huge amount of chips by stacking a guy QQ vs TT early and then stacking w/AA vs AK and a short-stack all in in the middle rounds.

This is a PS TURBO tourney. Blinds move up every 5 min.

The style I am trying to master is a Gisb0rne style of uber-tight early and then mastering push-fold in later rounds. The hands below are back-to-back hands where I got AQ and the same other-big-stack opened betting with a raise.


POKERSTARS HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL V (75/150)
Seat 1: jmswiss (1170 in chips)
Seat 2: GAC09 (3780 in chips)
Seat 3: jjok (1715 in chips)
Seat 8: BruinEric (4725 in chips)
Seat 9: hardlyplays (2110 in chips)
BruinEric: posts small blind 75
hardlyplays: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BruinEric [As Qc]
jmswiss: folds
GAC09: raises 150 to 300
jjok: folds
BruinEric: calls 225
hardlyplays: folds

Note: As soon as I hit "call," I was mad at myself. My gut tells me to raise or fold here, not limp to lose to a cont-bet when I miss the flop.

*** FLOP *** [7h Jh 4c]
BruinEric: checks
GAC09: bets 450
BruinEric: folds
GAC09 collected 750 from pot

This hand was not only posted for comment - but because the circumstances strongly effect my mental approach to the next hand.

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The Very Next Hand:

I started "feeling" (results not included) that he had moved to blind-steal mode. My fold on the prior hand came from not wanting to tangle with a big stack. My push on this hand came from the expectation he would not want to tangle with a big stack either -- plus the full expectation my hand was best along with huge FE.

POKERSTARS HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL V (75/150)
Seat 1: jmswiss (1170 in chips)
Seat 2: GAC09 (4230 in chips)
Seat 3: jjok (1715 in chips)
Seat 8: BruinEric (4425 in chips)
Seat 9: hardlyplays (1960 in chips)
hardlyplays: posts small blind 75
jmswiss: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BruinEric [Ah Qc]
GAC09: raises 450 to 600
jjok: folds
BruinEric: raises 3825 to 4425 and is all-in

[b}Comments/suggestions desired.[/b]

[BruinEric]

Bump for input/feedback.

[AlphaWice]

Dude, you have 30BB. Not <15BB.