did i make a mistake?

Would like to hear your comments on the following hand:

32k guaranteed on Tilt. Last 130 players, so we are all in the money. blinds 800/1600 antes 200.

I'm on the button with almost 34,000 chips
CO is an aggressive big stack with 82,000 chips and regularly raises from the CO/button and SB.

I'm dealt KQ suited.

All folds to the big stack who makes it 4800.

I re-raise to 11,000. SB folds BB goes all in for 28,000. I called and he shows AK.

Should I have called the BBs all in? the way I saw it.... I was putting in another 17k for a 54kish pot.

With an M of 7 and the smaller stack BB behind you still to act you should be pushing or folding here. Your small rereaise makes it easy for the BB to shove a wide range here to squeeze both of you just lucky for the BB s/he caught a great hand.

Let me put it this way, if your raise size was intended to induce a squeeze shove from the BB or a 4-bet from the CO then it was sized perfectly. If you raise was sized to win the pot preflop then it sucked.

i don't like Harrington's M... I've tried it and prefer using a measurement of 10 BBs. I expected the CO to fold, which he did and given our positions didn't give much thought to the action behind me... which was a mistake.

You failed to answer the question though.... now that I have raised.... correctly or incorrectly.... do i continue and call the BB or fold keeping back around 22k in chips?

of course... his fold could just have easily been induced by the all in as opposed to my raise... but now that I have 1/3 my stack in the pot with better than 3:1 on a call from an all in... is it right to call... potentially leaving myself crippled?

I think what the other posters are trying to do is to get you to think about your play pre-flop.

After the BB shoves all in, after seeing a raise and a re-raise in front of them, I would fold KQ suited. Even getting 3:1, because the hands you are behind, AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ, make you more than a 3:1 dog and I would hope that;s the only hands they are pushing all in with after a raise and a re-raise in front of them.

OK thanks... I was too pre-occupied with the agreesive player and stopped thinking about the action behind me... actually I was waiting for him to make that push so I could come over the top... but with the blinds and stack as they were I didn't factor them in.... soi do appreciate the pre-flop mistake.

Of course once I had made the mistake there were still decisions to be made now that the big blind has gone all in... so i wanted to be sure, now that I'm in that situation, what the right play was..... so thanks for addressing that also.

Basically... one hand... 2 mistakes... game over.. practically....

Just can't help thinking of a quote from Zen and the art of Poker:

"To escape the end of things you have to avoid the beginning" and no truer word was spoken than in this situation!!!

EliElezra said:

No, you should not call

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Right, the BB has seen a raise & a reraise and has still chosen to shove. Without a read, you can easily narrow his/her range to AA/KK/AK.

I never call a big raise with KQ unless I'm short stacked because most times the raiser has a ace or big pair unless of course he is short stacked. In your example the player might have had a weaker hand but you had plently of chips and it just seemed too risky.

i am new here. so what are these posts that i have to do to get in the freerolls?

KingIv3rson said:

Hard as it is to fold K Q suited, you made the wrong decision. no pockets, or even an ace, you made the wrong call. sorry bro

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I don't think its hard to fold any hand especially kq suited to a re-raise like this.
I agree you made the wrong move but I think I would have just called the original raise instead of coming over the top

Bad call.

You either go all in there or fold, his reraise out of pos showed that he ATLEAST had an ace. All you have is K/Q and really didnt need to make a big move there. But the only move you could've done IMO is all in on the button, he still would've called seeing he had A/K but If you're going to do anything in that spot, all in was it.

GL on the felt.