Playing in a local charity tournament with a $120 buy-in and there are about 50 entrants. Starting stack for the tournament is 35,000 and we are currently on the fourth level of the tournament with the blinds at 800-1600 with a big blind ante (same as bb). The tournament has a lot of regs so almost everyone knows each other well except for me. Stacks are approximated but should be fairly accurate.

Hero (125,000): Has played very aggressively and a few players at the table have gotten tilted by losing big pots where hero called with strong implied odds. Had the nuts in a few pots at showdown but otherwise opening at a higher frequency than the rest of the table.

Villain 1 (100,000): Guy is an absolute maniac. He often goes all in for no reason with very poor holdings and plays flops to try to get a piece of anything. I've seen him go all in with no piece of the board or a draw before.

Villian 2 (50,000): Got moved to our table with a medium stack and has gotten involved in pots but folded on fourth and fifth street a few times.

OTTH:

one player limps, Villian 1 limps, Villan 2 completes in the SB and I look down at KK in the BB and make the action 5,000 to go (Thoughts on a larger sizing would be helpful). Unknown folds and Villian 1 & 2 both call.

Flop comes:

829

Villian 1 open shoves and Villian 2 snap calls. Hero? (Will post spoiler later if requested)

Hero calls the flop.

Hero also makes it over 10k preflop as well.

Listen...I get it. You're worried about V2 but he doesn't have 99/88 often since those should isolate v1 and fold the limper. 89 should just be suited so not many combos.

I was thinking like 8-8.5k pre. But ya just gotta stick it in. Given stacks we only have to beat V1 to make it a profitable call and given our read we're well ahead of his range and probably slightly vs V2.

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Preflop your bet sizing is way too small. With these stacks I'm probably raising to about 10k too. With all of those limpers, you have to raise to an amount that takes into account all of the limpers.

Sure you have KK and don't want everyone to fold. Trust me in these charity events/limp fests, someone will still call.

Another very relevant point is that V1 who you expect to shove in with about anything when he feels like spazzing off has 100k and the potential risk player only has 50k.

But if you were the BB, how did V1 get to open shove the flop after you raised preflop and had a value hand on the flop? For that to happen the action had to go SB checks, Hero checks with an overpair, V1 shoves all in.

Not sure how this is weird action but pre bigger and flop snap call.

I'm thinking of Vegas and the ****ing mirage.

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I agree completely that the sizing was too small preflop and that given reads/villain 1s stack size we have to call here.