Hi, everyone this is my first post here. I've been watching the videos and reading the articles and I keep running into a problem that is really confusing me on what to do in tournaments. So I normally play full tilt tourneys anywhere from $2-$10 and lately ive been trying to be on the tighter side in the early goings. This is mostly because the players are so crazy sometimes and will just give you chips if you wake up with a hand(something this site helped me realize). But i seem to be constantly running into problems when blinds are between 40/80 – 100/200. Essentially what ive been noticing is that i'll be tight in the early goings and by these blind levels in a tourney where you start with 1500, ill normally have like 1200-1700.

for example

 – i get a hand like AQ off or AJ suited in mid-late position with 40/80 blinds and a stack of 1300.

 – i raise to 200 and get flatted by a blind and one other limper

– flop comes something like  K 7 9 rainbow

– checked around to me and i c bet around 340 and get called by 1 or both of the other players

–  the turn is another blank and now the pot is just as big or larger than my stack and i basically just have high cards

this is where i have been getting really confused… should i have shoved on the flop if checked to me? am i waiting too long to start shoving? basically im just finding that im getting low in chips and will only get a couple of chances with good hands to earn chips but when they miss like the situation above im put in an awkward position, do i go all in with nothing but high cards or check fold and go into shove, fold mode with <10 bb.

Any help would be appreciated, thx.