AQ off against the tightest player on the table

[Tim]

im UTG, the tightest player on the table is SB – second tightest player BB
blinds 10K/20K. i have roughly 230K and $40K more than SB. BB is short with 90K
I have A clubs Q spades
i raise UTG with 120K. rest of positions fold and sb calls me and BB folds.
flop is 6 8 9 rainbow
SB bets all in. I call
he has 9 10.
turn is an ace and river an 8
afterwards he said he thought my hand was weak which is why he called pre flop. id seen him lay down queens pre flop against the other tight player

did i do anything wrong strategically?
should i have gone all in pre flop?

[tommy bolin]

lots of things can change on how you should have played this hand, such as you dont say what stage of the game, how many left,if the bubble has passed, if its a bounty hunter, are there any antes, your table image,but on what you have given i don’t like your bet size 6x the bb leaving only 110,000 behind,all in would have been better but still the wrong move as your losing any value unless your close to the bubble.a bet of 44k or 50k would have got the same result,(if not it actually looks stronger as if you want a call) and you still have 180ish behind giving you the chance to drop on that flop to the all in

[Tim]

ah yes i thought bet sizing might have been too high
this was final table with 6 players left – money paid at 3
my image with this guy was i played premium hands – first time i had played him and we had both showed some strong lay downs to each other. i hadnt been caught with any bluffs or weak hands in showdowns to that point.
i would have preferred to have folded on the flop – so yes a small raise would have been better. the raise however was mostly to get the rather loose player to my left to fold.

[Mich]

With 6 players left and 11.5 bb I am shoving all day with AQ.
Perhaps you could maybe justify a min raise but with such a short stack it doesn’t make sense.

You’re essentially committed after the flop because you raised so much pre (half your stack), but when you call his all-in against such a tight player you’re drawing to 6 outs so despite being committed i think it was a bad call; but a worse preflop raise.

[Tim]

yup – thanks for that Mich – i see it now

[John]

What’s with the PF raise sizes at these tourneys you play 😀?

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