Late Steal Gone Wrong

[pistol78]

Late in a Limit Tourney, 18 spots get paid, around 40 left I have not been stealing a lot what do you guys do here.

PokerStars Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind t300 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP1 (t4920)
MP2 (t9083)
CO (t5810)
Hero (t1830)
SB (t3224)
BB (t4693)
UTG (t4592)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB 3-bets</font>, Hero calls.

Flop: (6.50 SB, t1950) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: (4.25 BB, t2550) 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: 5.25 BB (t3150)

[ZootMurph]

Tough spot. With so few chips left, I think you have to make a decision preflop whether to go all the way. You already have 1/3 of your chips in the pot with your preflop raise, and not a whole lot left to work with. I personally decide when he 3 bets if I'm willing to put my tourney on the line or not. If I'm willing to risk it, I cap preflop and get the rest of my chips in on the flop, no matter how bad it looks. Otherwise, I fold to the reraise preflop and hope I can do something with the 4 BB I have left.

Do you have any read on the BB that could help in this decision? Honestly, it looks like a small stack trying to steal and I'd 3 bet in his position with any two cards as well.

[pistol78]

The only read I had was that he was not protecting his blinds to freely and this was one of the only 2 times i saw him fight back. But then again this is a limit event so he can be easily 3 betting me preflop with a hand like TT.