Need to improve my deep stack, ITM play.

[A-Baum]

Facing this situation a bit recently and need help. Low limit SNGs ($11 or $22) and I'm in the money, but it's been a donkfest so we're ITM at level $75/$150. Chip stacks below.

Obviously the limits are low so there's very little pushing at this stage, but I'm so used to being down to 3 players at level $300/$600 and it being a crapshoot.

Example:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (3 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t3520)
SB (t2802)
BB (t7178)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t600</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t1200</font>, Hero calls t600.

Flop: (t2475) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t2250</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2320</font>, BB calls t70.

Turn: (t7115) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

River: (t7115) Q/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t7115

I know for a fact that I played this poorly. I didn't know what to do with the reraise. If I fold to the reraise I'm equal about to the shortstack, and for some reason that wasn't acceptable to me.

I also put this guy on AK, AQ, KQ.

What's my line after the PF reraise? Was I correct to raise in the first place?

[lorinda]

I think your line is "Don't call the preflop raise".

What you do within that guideline is probably going to change a lot depending on how the game has been so far.

Lori

[gumpzilla]

At this stage in the game, there is really no need to raise to 600 PF. My standard raise at this level is 375, and it generally works just fine. You lose less when you get repopped with garbage, and when you do get called and have to play a pot, the pot is a more manageable size.

I'm not wild about just calling the PF reraise. If you think BB is restealing, push. If not, fold. I also think that given all the indications of strength that you have seen, this is not the place to call with bottom pair, unless the big stack has been extremely aggressive, but in that case I think you should be rerestealing PF anyway.