tricky hand with 77's....advice please

[tiger7210]

late in a $10 MTT on Stars with about 25 left. BB 2000.
my stack size 38000 villain in hand has 29000 in SB.

i open in MP for 6000.
villain calls from SB for 5000.

pot~15000 flop K4K rainbow.

villain makes weak lead out for 6000.

My read on villain is somewhat loose aggressive but not reckless. He recently lost a big stack and then rebuilt to where he is now.

I have 29000 and there is now 21000 in the pot.

What's my line here?

[PaisanoDay]

Id reraise from 12000 to 15000. If he comes over the top its likely hes got u beaten. Otherwise he would think that hes beaten and fold. if he calls, well ure prolly betaen but you get one more chance to improve..

Cheers

[schwza]

villain has 17k behind, and there is ~22k in the middle (i added 1k for antes).

i'd push. i'd be pretty surprised if villain has a K - if so, clever play by him and wins some chips for it. i think the odds are very high you'll take it down, but villain may talk himself into a call with AJ or 55. any bigger pair than 77 is reraising preflop, imo.

my first instinct was to call, but if villain fires a second barrel there's a good chance we'll do the wrong thing. pushing also doesn't give the free card to beat you.