Bustout Hand on the Bubble...How do I play AQo here?

[jcchou]

PartyPoker MTT, 210 entrants, top 11 in the money.
I finished 14th when I busted out of this hand.
All-in immediately (before other guy raises)? Fold?
Did I just get unlucky, or did I play really badly pre-flop?

***** Hand History for Game 2198473511 *****
1000/2000 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 13040755) - Sun Jun 12 22:28:26 EDT 2005
Table $200K Saturday Qualifier(362289) Table 1 (Real Money) -- Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: jcchou (8580)
Seat 3: bptwofour (26023)
Seat 6: MSC_Big_Foot (5770)
Seat 7: Kindwolf (9240)
Seat 8: bigjigga4201 (26626)
Seat 9: paulf777 (2905)
Seat 10: tonygaw (14983)
Kindwolf posts small blind (500)
bigjigga4201 posts big blind (1000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to jcchou [ Ac, Qh ]
paulf777 folds.
tonygaw folds.
jcchou raises (2800) to 2800
bptwofour folds.
MSC_Big_Foot folds.
Kindwolf folds.
bigjigga4201 raises (5000) to 6000
tonygaw: u gotta call
jcchou calls (3200)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Qs, Td, Js ]
bigjigga4201 checks.
jcchou bets (2580)
jcchou is all-In.
bigjigga4201 calls (2580)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 9h ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Jd ]
Creating Main Pot with $17660 with jcchou
** Summary **
Main Pot: 17660 |
Board: [ Qs Td Js 9h Jd ]
jcchou balance 0, lost 8580 [ Ac Qh ] [ two pairs, queens and jacks -- Ac,Qh,Qs,Js,Jd ]
bptwofour balance 26023, didn't bet (folded)
MSC_Big_Foot balance 5770, didn't bet (folded)
Kindwolf balance 8740, lost 500 (folded)
bigjigga4201 balance 35706, bet 8580, collected 17660, net +9080 [ 8c 8h ] [ a straight, eight to queen -- Qs,Js,Td,9h,8c ]
paulf777 balance 2905, didn't bet (folded)
tonygaw balance 14983, didn't bet (folded)

[kyro]

Not that it would have mattered, but just push preflop. He's probably calling you anyways, but with only 8.5BB left, you have to push.

[jcchou]

<bump>
any more thoughts? thanks in advance!

[Toddy]

Tough beat. AQ is one of those hands I dont' really like to push too much.. I might have just doubled the blind.

[Toddy]

The more I look at it I can't believe he called your $2880 bet after the flop. I would have been out.

[jcchou]

yeah...like i said, he about 25% AT BEST after the flop, and that's assuming i hadn't already hit the nut straight.

[schwza]

[ QUOTE ]
Not that it would have mattered, but just push preflop. He's probably calling you anyways, but with only 8.5BB left, you have to push.

[/ QUOTE ]

[jcchou]

<bump> please help!

[Diamond Dave]

If you think you can fold your way to a seat then fold before the flop. If not, just push-in preflop. If you get called by 88, who cares. But pushing might get someone to fold middle pair if they don't want a race.

In the actual hand, once you get raised you might as well stick the rest in, since the pot will be too big for either of you to fold. Villain is getting such good odds on your turn AI he has to call (certainly with anything that was worth a re-raise preflop).

Cheers

DD