Late Steal Gone Wrong

[pistol78]

Late in a Limit Tourney, 18 spots get paid, around 40 left I have not been stealing a lot what do you guys do here.

PokerStars Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind t300 (7 handed) converter

MP1 (t4920)
MP2 (t9083)
CO (t5810)
Hero (t1830)
SB (t3224)
BB (t4693)
UTG (t4592)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB 3-bets</font>, Hero calls.

Flop: (6.50 SB, t1950) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: (4.25 BB, t2550) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: 5.25 BB (t3150)

[ZootMurph]

Tough spot. With so few chips left, I think you have to make a decision preflop whether to go all the way. You already have 1/3 of your chips in the pot with your preflop raise, and not a whole lot left to work with. I personally decide when he 3 bets if I'm willing to put my tourney on the line or not. If I'm willing to risk it, I cap preflop and get the rest of my chips in on the flop, no matter how bad it looks. Otherwise, I fold to the reraise preflop and hope I can do something with the 4 BB I have left.

Do you have any read on the BB that could help in this decision? Honestly, it looks like a small stack trying to steal and I'd 3 bet in his position with any two cards as well.

[pistol78]

The only read I had was that he was not protecting his blinds to freely and this was one of the only 2 times i saw him fight back. But then again this is a limit event so he can be easily 3 betting me preflop with a hand like TT.