Situation in my last home tourney.. what would you do?

Blinds were 75/150.

15 still left in tourney, top 5 pay.

My table had 8 people.

Everyone folds to me, the button:

Button Hero: 750
SB Player: 1,500
BB Player: 3,000

I get A-4s (clubs) on the button.

To give you a history, when the blinds were 50/100, I was SB with 7-7 and raised to 400 and the BB (Player 1 up there) went all in. After deliberation I folded and he showed K-K. So I admit in this new hand I'm discussing I was a bit timid to raise...which cost me.

I call 150. SB and BB call and check.

Flop comes 6-4-Q

SB and BB check. I smell weakness and go all in for my remaining 600. SB calls with a Q-8.

In retrospect, I do think I should have moved all in with A-4s but I was overly cautious. I think I played it correctly given my mistake, he just happened to slow play the Q.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Hal 2000]

With 5 BB's left, easy push or fold..

why should you be timid about raising? Your opponent raised allin with KK, not rags. How often is he going to wake up with cowboys? I think either you push or fold

[ChuckyB]

This was an easy push or fold situation.

Since you called, the flop is check/fold. Hitting bottom pair on the flop might be good against one player, but not two.

And just one minor semantic point...you can't really say he "slow-played" the queens. Q8 is a crap hand and not worth a raise pre-flop. Plus he hadn't had a chance to act yet after the flop. He just got lucky and hit the board...just like you got unlucky and hit the low end of the board when someone had hit it harder.

[Sterling]

He did have a chance to act, he checked after the flop, but yes a push pre-flop is a much better play, as I'm sure q8 would not call that.

[ldavidjm]

I'd recommend checking out the single table tournement forum, this is a very very easy all in with your stack at only 5BB.

[ChuckyB]

I thought I knew how to read. Sorry 'bout that.