[Live Tourney Question]

I think I may play this hand differently in this spot. If your 8 handed and your 2 to the money and from what I assume your around 2nd or 3rd in chips and everyone else is short stacked, theres no reason to put yourself at risk until your in the money. Lets say you smooth call there for 5k. That leaves you with 11k and the pot is roughly 13k or something like that. If the flop comes 3 6 8. Depending on his action thats a pretty good flop for you and takes some pressure off, also if he checks it u can shove and he does have fold equity with his AK. But if the flop comes A K Q and he shoves, you could get away from the hand by folding here, and still leaving yourself with 11k and being behind the deal, assuming some of the short stacks are gunna bust soon anyway. All im saying is that if you do shove preflop the big stack may end up calling with a range of hands like AK AQ AX, KQ KJ, which your a coin flip against for your tournament life, near the bubble. If you smooth call and the flop comes down good for you he can get away from those range of face card hands. Rather than if u shove preflop have him call you with a random hand like AJ and the board come 3 4 5 turn 4 river J. Then your out and miss the money. Theres a lot of crucial survival decisions to be made at the late stages of a tournament, and I just think id want to see the first 3 cards before I put all my chips in vs a big stack.

[Qq Oop Against Tag]

You should never call pf imo. Either fold or shove. If you put him on AA, KK, QQ, or AK, then fold pf as his range has you in bad shape. And if that is villain's 4betting range, then you should consider whether or not you should really be 3betting him with QQ. If he's that tight, do you really think he will call you 3bet with worse? If not, then you should be 3betting him with 72o, not QQ. I 3bet and shove over the 4bet vs any villain I would have decided to 3bet with QQ.Mark

If you shove to the players 4-bet, he will likely call you preflop. Whereas if you decide to just flat call, and then shove on the flop you give yourself that extra chance to win the pot. In this hand the player had QQ preflop. If he flat calls and the flop comes A K 2, then its a lot easier for him to fold his hand. But if the flop comes the way it did he can shove on the flop, this way if he put the guy on a lower pp or AK they may fold here. The point im trying to make is that if your going to shove preflop anyway, whats the difference between shoving on the flop?