Day 1 of a live £100 tournament. Blinds are 600/1.2k. Hero is TAG and has 80k so roughly 65BB. We are 5 handed with 2 levels left before the day finishes.
UTG who is a weak senior player limps for 1.2k. I raise to 5.1k with KJcc. BTN who is the villain in this hand has 150k approx min raises to 10.2k.
Now my first thought was that BTN thought I was isolating the player who was UTG and wanted to put me under pressure. BTN is a very confident player and I thought he was making a move.
I proceed by piling in my stack as I did not want to play OOP against him and thought there was enough weak hands in his range that would fold. Roughly 19k in the pot when I jammed pre.
Is this just far too aggressive? Should we just take the tempting price and call pre instead and fold to villains cbet more often than not?
Typically you want to post tournament hands in a tournament forum but...
This is impossible to answer without a lot more information about BTN, like age, appearance, your history with him, his history of preflop threebetting, etc etc. The standard play here is clearly to flat, so with just "confident player" to go on, all the answers you'll get will be "flat". This is a general problem with questions like this one which revolve entirely around an assessment of villain.
