Last Table Strategy

[mojito]

Hey,
i read Sklansky's Tournament Poker for Advanced Players and started playing in live low buy-in limit and no-limit holdem tournaments, mainly at Hollywood Park and the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
I reached the final table twice and today something happened that i wanted to question:

I am 7th in chips on the final table (10 players), i have about 7000 in chips. Blinds are 1000-2000 and they are coming in 2 hands. I get AK and am supposed to act. I think about the Sklansky's advice of preserving chips and not going on 50-50 chances on a large proportion of the stack, and at the same time, i remember that i will loose half my stack in blinds to come very soon...
so i decided to raise that AK (limit holdem). The button calls! with Q-9.
And a Q opens, with undercards, not scary.. he bets, i think the same way i did above, and decide to see the turn.. no A or K, naturally...
i lost most of my money on that hand, and didn't know if i did the right thing ///

any comment ?? would be very well appreciated if by Mr. Sklansky himself or Mr. Malmuth on this particular situation...

thanks so much.

[redwings03]

Raise is the best play in my mind. You had the better of him pre flop. You need to re-evaluate after the flop but a pre flop raise was right.

[steeser]

I'd make a big pre-flop raise and try to take the hand down right then. Push all-in and hope for the best.

[gunboat]

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I'd make a big pre-flop raise and try to take the hand down right then. Push all-in and hope for the best.


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Its limit - not an option