171 paid, ~320 remaining
Avg stack ~50k
$1,000/$2,000/$300
9 handed

Villian (Rock) (UTG) ~$58k
Hero (UTG+1) ~$66k (3rd in chips at table)

Hero table image solid, balanced, but active last half hour due to mini-rush

Villian has never raised UTG in 5 hours playing with him. Has shown down position-appropriate hands all night and has bet them textbook standard.

Villian raises to $6k
Hero has JJ and goes all in for $66k (~30 more BB).

Is this a bad spot to be getting it in against a very tight opponent? My M is 11 but I got over 30 bbs and we're not ITM yet. However, there was the lure of a 60+BB stack in a tourney with a steep structure close to the bubble.

I put him on AQo+, AQs+, JJ+, which JJ is close to a 55/45 underdog against. We become slight favorites if we widen his opening range just slightly (99+,KQs,ATs+AQo+). Is this simply a bad spot to flip for stacks?

Would we have been better 3-betting to $12k-$15k and folding if he shoves pre? If he flats the 3-bet and the flop is all undercards, we have a tough decision if/when he ships.

What is the optimal line in this particular spot? Folding pre crossed my mind, too, which is why I ask. I snap-shoved, but felt spewey afterward, like I could have found a better spot. Got under 60 live tourneys experience so I am still a noob. Appreciate any insight here

Thank you all for your advice in advance.

Awkward positions, awkward stacks behind perhaps..
If table thinks you are pretty loose, you have the feeling you are not the best player at the table, I don't mind an overshove with JJ. I do think if you knock the player out, you are getting a significant amount of chips which will secure a cash and perhaps chiplead at the table. If your style is to pick up blinds easily, def go with shoving...
However, if you are not a very good postflop player("If he flats the 3-bet and the flop is all undercards, we have a tough decision if/when he ships.") Decisions are pretty straightforward playing post with let's say already 17-18BB in the middle and 25BB left in position. 2nd however, is villains std raise 3x BB? Mostly 3xBB raises from ubertight players, mean they are bladed...

I don't think villain is folding a lot here if he is a rock and we reship.
Dynamics-position advocate a shove, stacks are advocating 3b/f, Villain-3xBB raise advocates a fold.
Very close this, I think I can find a fold, but blaaah...

+1

if he doesn't flat 3bets oop then don't see much value in 3b/f. flat we get owned too much post. I fold here alot I think

Villian has never raised UTG in 5 hours playing with him. Has shown down position-appropriate hands all night and has bet them textbook standard.

if he is so tight, he is raising a very strong range frm UTG (duuuh obv). when u 3bet, being him so tight, he is only continuing with the range that murders your jacks.
u said he is very ABC, he probably doesnt have steals (some suited connectors etc) on his range. prob wont 4bet bluff.

that being said, i can see no reason for 3betting if u wanna play the hand. specially when he raises 3x, pot wont be multiway most of the time. u will be able to pay posflop. u two have stacks behind and he wont make life difficult, even with an overcard to our hand.

call or fold. its no shame to fold if villains range is going to be superstrong and he is already inflating the pot sky high by 3xing. i probably call, jacks are too strong to fold and i cant even fold 88 pre p =p.

if your range is correct (given reads on opening ranges from other positions) then it's a fold. not only because of the odds against his range but also the 7 players still to act. also, not deep enough to 3b/fold or setmine either.

but fwiw i don't think you can range V quite this tight. given that it's live, he's only acted ~15 times UTG in five hours. quite possible he hasn't picked up a single decent hand utg. he may be using that image now, expanding his actual range to perhaps the second range you mentioned or even wider. even so, it's such a marginal spot i'd be tempted to fold.

just don't flat. you can't proceed with any certainty on a T-- flop and could easily be drawn into a b/Heroc, chk/Herobet/Vshove/Herofold or similar spot that burns half your stack.