Some help with a hand please

[1C5]

Now bear with me, I am almost getting close to explode here. This caps off another losing night and makes the buy in drop over 30 buy ins in the 22s for me I am sure which is my worst downswing yet.

Interesting hand. My thinking: Play for 1st. Call with AA and then push on the flop. But then look at the flop. Yuck. 3 spades and I have none. What do you do here? Notice the small stack. And I am probably ahead here but there is a good chance another spade will come to knock me out. So fold or call?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (4 handed) converter

Hero (t2390)
SB (t1664)
BB (t758)
UTG (t3188)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t1100</font>, Hero calls t1100, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>.

Flop: (t2800) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets t2088 (All-In)</font>, Hero ?

[Big Limpin']

Get in prelop. Thats playing for 1st too.

On flop. Man, crappy, i'd muck.

[brad the fish]

I would agree here - why not all in preflop after his raise?
After the flop, I would agree with mucking as well

[bluefeet]

call. KQ, KJ off would be my guess. flush draw....maybe. the odds of holding up can't be much worse than folding with &lt; 3BB remaining.

hindsight is indeed 20/20, but reraise all-in preflop. he's about committed....T1200ish on a T5400 pot. even if he were to fold, you now own a 2-1 chip lead.

no reason to get cute with this one IMO.

[Voltron87]

All in preflop. I don't see any ambiguity.

[1C5]

Yeah I know, next time will be all in PF, but post flop after this mess I am into, call or fold this?

[pokerlaw]

The odds he had a flush right now are MUCH less than the odds he had a draw, a K, or something else. Yeah, I'll give him one spade, but you are ahead of that. I would call.