Party 10+1, 5 left. (nOOb warning)

[itsmesteve]

Hello all, micro limit, poster noob to the STT forum.
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (5 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t1985)
Button (t2510)
SB (t760)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1245)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 9/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t300</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t1000</font>, Hero calls t700.

Flop: (t2050) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero calls t500.

Turn: (t2550) 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

River: (t2550) 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t2550

At the time i thought this was a standard call getting about 2:1 with a chance to take a commanding lead. If flop is ugly, i can ditch and still have a somewhat playable (though getting desperate) stack. The fact that he didn't push kinda threw me off. . . he either will fold to a reraise with 5 BB to play with or wants action. This pushed me to the call. How bad is the thought process here. Is this standard? Am I a SnG fish?

Apologies for any breach of forum etiquette.

[beeyjay]

I think you have to fold preflop. This said it depends a lot on you're perception of this player. If he has been throwing these raises in a lot maybe you're good but even then I would wait to bust him in all but the rarest situations and if I was going to play I'd push him in. You can't give him a flop here with him getting 5 to 1 on any future calls.

FWIW I think you should probably just much this hand instead of raising 3bb with it. You have enough chips to wait to steal when the blinds are 100/200.

[microbet]

I would treat his raise to 1000 the same as if he had pushed. He is committed. He may have raised less because he has a monster or just thought 1000 was a nice number and didn't think about how he was leaving only 500 behind.

[Freudian]

I'm fine with the first raise. But when he re-raises you have to let go. This hand is not worth crippling your stack over.