AQ in PS Nordic PCA
 

Here is a hand from the Stars Nordic PCA last week.
It's around 260 left of 1850 starting.
I'm one of the bigger stacks on the table but the tournament leaders are on other tables with 40-50K (if I remember correctly).
The first 191 places pay but the payouts are very very small until the top 20-30 places.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Button (t16460)
SB (t15865)
BB (t19385)
UTG (t6452)
UTG+1 (t3595)
MP1 (t8234)
MP2 (t7397)
MP3 (t16932)
Hero (t14495)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t1800</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero...?

Good, bad or flat out ugly?
 

oh well,

I just wanted to hear if my play was good, bad or really bad.

here's what I did...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Button (t16460)
SB (t15865)
BB (t19385)
UTG (t6452)
UTG+1 (t3595)
MP1 (t8234)
MP2 (t7397)
MP3 (t16932)
Hero (t14495)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t1800</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t14445</font>...

I'm still a noob at multi table tournaments, but my thinking was along these lines:
By going all in I would shut out the button and the blinds and I would have a big FE vs MP1 and even if he calls I have a real hand.

Re: Good, bad or flat out ugly?
 

I think you can accomplish the same thing by reraising to 5k and on the off chance that someone yet to act has a big hand you can maybe get away from it.

Against the right guy folding preflop is also right.