This hand was played just outside of the final table with about 15 people left in the tournament

**Hand**
Kd Jc

**Stack**
Hero - 5000
Villain - 7200

**Blinds**
125/250

**Position**
Hero - Cut-off
Villain - Big Blind

**Preflop**
Folds to Hero
Hero raises to 500 (2BB)
Btn & SB folds
Villain Calls

**Flop**
Board: Kc7d3s. Pot 1125
Villain Bets 250
Hero Raises to 750
Villain 3-bets to 1250
Hero Calls

**Turn**
Board: Kc7d3s5s
Villain Shoves
Hero ?

I think I played this hand wrong
Should I have raised his bet on the flop?
Should I have called the 3 bet?
Should I fold or call Villain's shove in this situation?

Thanks

I think if you're going to raise it's because you're planning to go with this hand-- which isn't really that bad with TPGK at 25BB. So you need a plan for the rest of the hand before you make a decision like that. I'm not really sure; I think calling down might be better because this board is pretty dry and you don't have to worry about protecting against draws. If you're going to raise the flop, you probably have to call the shove now.

It would help if you included the stakes, any reads or stats on villain, etc., in your posts. (Also, the size of the tournament field, how many get paid, etc. Are we in a big MTT well into the money? A 2- or 3-table sit-and-go where only the final table gets paid?)

It's hard to say what's correct without knowing more about villain. Leading weak and minreraising is a pretty strange line so I'm not really ready to give him credit for a good hand.

It was a satellite tournament where the top 5 get paid out (about 60 buy ins)
The average stack was around 5000

It was a satellite tournament where the top 5 get paid out (about 60 buy ins)
The average stack was around 5000

DIfficult spot for sure. Hard to imagine the opponent reraising with a worse hand and the flop is essentially drawless. Then again people do stupid things at the poker tables.

IMO, the easy route is to not raise the flop with this particular hand and these stack depths. Keep the bluffs in and you don't have to worry about turn overcards much so protection isn't needed really. Aggression is good, especially in tournaments, but you gotta be able to fold as well, particularly when opponents show strength. At least according to my experience, most people dislike playing big pots with marginal holdings at this stage of the tournament. Which means they are easy to bluff out of pots BUT you should be very wary when they seem sticky as they typically have strong hands.

If you raise, you're playing for stacks, as it would be silly to turn that hand into a bluff. So easy call of the shove on the turn with that particular turn card. But that's assuming you were raising the flop for value, which I think is quite marginal sans reads that the opponent is very bluffy.

You really should have some reads for these situations btw. Assuming the opponent sat at the same table for a while, you should have at least some idea what they are capable of. Small tournaments have all kinds of people playing, from super nits to maniacs. It's quite essential to quickly try to put them in some kind of rough playing style brackets, especially later in the tournament when the blinds are huge compared to stacks.

Turn is a fold - the only reason to call this would be if you think the villain is completely braindead and just randomly clicking buttons.