The right move ?

[Rivrd]

Had a rollercoaster of a night on the 18k G'tee on betfair last night but wanted to post up a couple of hands from last nights game to see what you think. Will post hand 1 first before the next one. As i stated i was literally the shortest stack and one point and then find myself 3rd in chips. The player in question here is hedger who i have come across a few times now and have him marked down as a tight player. HAND 1 NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee, Level:11 Blinds(250/500-50 ante) - Friday, August 28, 22:11:02 GMT 2009 $18,000 Guaranteed NL Hold'em #272915 Table 3 9-max (Real Money) Seat 1: footiebet ( 16,276.25 ) Seat 2: 5hortstak ( 27,986.71 ) Seat 3: BLACK RAIN ( 5,727.50 ) Seat 4: WannaCookie ( 18,327 ) Button: elabiii ( 34,631.01 ) SB: bluebirdsfc ( 9,847.50 ) BB: pom poy ( 19,249.37 ) Seat 8: hedger43 ( 7,091.17 ) Seat 9: dirrtydogg ( 14,823.76 ) Tourney Level:11 Blinds(250/500-50 ante) footiebet posts ante [50] 5hortstak posts ante [50] BLACK RAIN posts ante [50] WannaCookie posts ante [50] elabiii posts ante [50] bluebirdsfc posts ante [50] dirrtydogg posts ante [50] pom poy posts ante [50] hedger43 posts ante [50] bluebirdsfc posts small blind [250] pom poy posts big blind [500] Preflop: 5hortstak is dealt Q♦, Q♠ hedger43 raises to 1,200, dirrtydogg folds, footiebet folds, 5hortstak raises to 4,000, BLACK RAIN folds, WannaCookie folds, elabiii folds, bluebirdsfc folds, pom poy folds, hedger43 raises all in 7,041.17, 5hortstak calls 3,041.17 **Showdown** 5hortstak shows Q♦, Q♠ hedger43 shows K♥, K♦ Flop: 9♥, A♥, 7♦ Turn: A♣ River: 4♣ hedger43 wins 15,282.34 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Kings

[Hooloovoo]

Re: The right move ? Well what could he have? (let's forget we know already) He's so shortstacked (M slightly under 6) so the norm would be to push with a good (but not fantastic) hand here, hoping to double up. It's almost a min-raise actually, which should add to the alarm bells. But you don't have to care about that here, your hand is far to good to let go. You have him covered big time, you have the 3rd best hand: You want an all-in confrontation with no-one else involved. You don't really raised to 4,000, you raised to 7,000, since you "know" that he will push on you, there's no way he would just call your raise. Therefore, the exact size of the raise is not important, as long as it's big enough to keep the others out. His actual holding (which means you were unlucky) is not relevant