I'm on the button, blinds are 500 1000, 200 ante. I have about 30K in chips. Villain is in small blind, chip leader. LAG is directly on my right.

LAG open limps, I limp with KQ off behind him. Chip leader bumps it up to 3K.

we all call.

Flop comes KQJ rainbow. Villain checks, LAG leads out for 2K. I raise to 6K.

Villain bumps it up to 15K. LAG folds. Whats our play?

Is my 6K raise just lighting chips on fire? Can I get away from the hand at his point?

**Villian is middle aged white guy, clean cut. Seems like a pretty ABC player.

Raise 2,800 after LAG's limp (unless he has shown the tendency to limp-shove).

As played, shove now and hope that Villain has AA,AK, KQ or KJ.

I would probably have to disagree that villain has AA or AK here. He would pretty much always lead with those or just check call. I think his range is 910suited, A10, a set or two pair and obviously possibly a bluff but I'm really doubting that.

Yeah this is more what I was thinking. However, i didn't think that he was raising pre flop with A10 or 9 10 Suited. So thats even less hands that beat me. Maybe I gave him too much credit for being tight. Regardless I mucked but am still not sure it was the right play.

A player I respect at the table said I was beat fwiw..

Yeah it feels like a set most likely but if he was a big cheap leader he could have A10 (suited or os) and 910s in his range I would think to raise in that spot.

Best case scenario he has same hand or KJ

Prefer iso-pre, ~3k seems fine..limping along, not terrible tho. w/e on the call to SBs bad sizing.
Call the 2k the first time...can gii now

Yes in retrospect I totally agree that I should have bumped it up pre flop. Not sure why I didn't, probably because I was newer to the table and minimal reads. I still want to ship the flop after being reraised but feel that its close to a fold as well.

I folded because I was trying to survive and thought it was a slightly better option than call/ship, but didn't get too many opportunities after this..

Iso preflop

GII and pray for KQ/KJ/QJ/KT/AK/AA on flop.

I couldn't get away from that hand.

raise accomplishes very little just flat the 2k, would prefer to get value on future streets

LAG open limps. Makes sense.

Always raising preflop here against a pre-flop limper.

I think I'm probably flatting flop here more often than not to get value from worse. I want one-pair hands and drawing hands to stick around.

As played, probably thinking a 3-bet range for villain on the flop looks something like this, taking into account the remote possibility there might some semi-bluffs in play:
TT+, AKs, ATs, KJs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, AKo, ATo, KQo

Against that range you're ~45%. Considering the size of the pot already and the fact you only have 21K behind, I think getting it in is +EV unless there were significant ICM considerations. (i.e., you're close to the money bubble or you're in the money and there are significant pay jumps)