It"s a 6-max tournament that had 116 runners. Top 11 are getting paid and we"re down to the last 12.
Starting stacks were 10,000 and the blinds 35 minutes, making it one of the most enjoyable and "playable" tournaments I"ve ever played. The TD told me that the average didn"t drop below 20xBBs until the tournament got down to 3-handed.
Having been stumbling along just below average, slowly trying to increase my stack. With about 40 left I"ve managed to be gifted one bloke"s stack when I rivered the nut straight and he decided to re-raise shove with the 2nd nuts. Very next hand the big stack turns the nut flush, which unfortunately for him gives me a full house. That gave me a very nice stack thank you very much and since then I"ve been motoring nicely. Now we"re down to two tables and we"re all looking at the final table (which will be a 7-seater table) and ideally a top 3 spot where the money is definitely less trivial.
So back to the hand in question. I"ve been playing quite a few hands, as the format dictates, as does my stack size. There are a few smaller stacks at the table and one other who has about the same stack as me (170,000). I"ve been putting pressure on the smaller stacks, and feeling fairly comfortable.
An orbit before the hand in question, I three-bet Seat 2, who is a tight player who hasn"t played as many hands as others at the table in the past few levels. She dwelled for a while and then passed. I have a feeling she laid down a decent Ace (maybe AQ) or a medium-high pair.
Anyway, an orbit later, I look down at
kd in the BB. Blinds are 1,500/3,000 with antes of 300. UTG+1 limps, and Seat 2 raises up to 9,000. It"s folded to me. So we"re in a similar situation to the last orbit, when I re-raised to 27,000.
I have about 170,000 - Seat 1 has 60,000 and Seat 2 about 100,000.
Seat 1 was on my table earlier and seemed to know what he was doing. I was surprised with his limp, and it looked suspiciously like he was planning to re-raise. Seat 2 wasn"t unaware of this, and so her raise looked strong.
What do I do next?