Re: What to do here? Small pair late in the tournament.
Limp or fold preflop - fold to his post flop bet.
You can't count of hitting a two outter on the turn and if you don't get the set you have no confidence in this hand.
AK has no more of a chance to hit on the flop then 32. The difference is that if you hit with AK you can feel confident about the hand. If you hit 32 (i.e. 3 T Q flop) you cannot feel confident about betting this hand and making some money.
Similarly with 33. Unless you flop the set, you don't know if this big stack is bullying you or slowplaying a monster. So, you have to let it go.
When there are four left and you are either the big stack or the small stack, you can push the small pairs and hope they hold up. You sure don't want to get into betting rounds with them (expecially head to head late in the tournament) and watch them eat up your stack.
Your either a huge dog post flop (needing another 3) or your opponent is a small dog drawing to a minimum of six outs (and more likely 8-10 with flush and straight draws probable).
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