Hand advise

[flpster]

I was playing a tournament last monday. It was a £50 relatively fast structured game with 22 players starting. Blinds went up every half hour for the first two levels and then every 20 mins after that, starting at 100/200.

It was the seventh level (blinds 700/1500 no ante). The average stack was just under 27,500 and I had a stack of about 50,000. We were down to sixteen players (two tables). I play regularly in this game and am known as a solid player who is relatively tight, although I am capable of making my fair share of moves.

The table folded around to me on the button. The SB (Stack 40,000ish) is a solid player who is a resonable tight. The BB (Stack 60,000 ish) LAG who likes to bully smaller stacks when he has a good chip stack.

I'm holding ATo.

I raise 3BB (4500)
SB folds
BB re-raises all-in.

What I know about the BB is that if he had a monster hand he would normally 3-bet a reasonable amount - say to 9BB. He overrates rag aces and small pocket pairs and I have seen him do massive overbets all-in with these sort of hands.

I call eventually and he turns over A7o.

He outflops me and knocks me out of the tournament.

Should I have made the call, or was it not worth risking my tournament life on such a hand. Even though I was correct in this instant I cant decided whether folding with a stack of 30BB was the better play.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

[FatMan]

It is always the correct play when you make the right read. The percentages bear out this fact in the long run.

Was it worth risking a possible placement in the tourney?? Possibly not, but if you won the hand, you cruise to the final table in most liklihood.

[lakong]

I think it's a good call. His range is quite wide here based on your read -- I'm thinking it's something like: most Aces, two broadway cards, most pairs. That's assuming he thinks you are solid and not a nit and are likely to be raising from the button when folded to you with most hands and that you are very capable of folding most of you holdiings except the premium hands.