The patented Harv Fish Flop. It's too early in the tourney & I'm too new to the big MTTs to have firm reads on either opponent, but both had been playing pretty tight & solid poker up to this point. UTG+2 had bled me down to my current stack size a couple orbits earlier with a nice slowplay of a turned nut flush. As tight as the table had been playing I wasn't expecting any other callers when I initially re-raised, hence the minimum preflop bet. When the button (who had been playing extremely tight) did call, I immediately put him on a medium PP 77-JJ.
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed)
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MP1 (t510)
Hero (t710)
MP3 (t2275)
CO (t1190)
Button (t815)
SB (t1045)
BB (t770)
UTG (t845)
UTG+1 (t1280)
UTG+2 (t1330)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
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2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+2 raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t120</font>, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, Button calls t120, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, UTG+2 calls t60.
Flop: (t405) 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG+2 checks, Hero thinks for several seconds and pushes for t590....
The question: in the early stages of a tournament, am I going to be called by a worse hand often enough to make this worthwhile? It seems like I often am, but I don't know if I've just been spectacularly lucky so far. I figured that anything I bet tied me to the pot anyhow and with the drawy flop I didn't want to risk a free card by checking...correct thinking?