Hello and good morning.

I played a live tourney last night, 15$ buyin t5K (+ t2k for being early) with 5$ bounty and one 15$ t5K addon without being felted.  32 entries with 1st place taking $240 through sixth taking $55.  I sat in seat 1 and will give some history/reads on most of the table, especially the villain, who I actually like playing with.  Probably a sign of his skill.

Blinds are at 1000/2000 with no antes.  Players are, briefly and with approximated stacks:

S1) Me, Hero, 25K.  To half the table, my image is pretty strong in my opinion, but no one thinks I'm anything special, especially with an unimpressive stack – aggressive, adaptive, probably on the tight side.  The other half includes the villain, and they have no reads on me, as this is probably the sixth or seventh hand of the FT.  They probably noticed that I didn't take any shots yet.

S2) 25K, No reads, quiet friendly old man.

S3) Villain, 50K. one of two players whom I recognize as regulars of this place, and of cardroom bars in the area in general.  Talkative and joke telling Asian man whose play is very aggressive and loose, and actually unpredictable.  He doesn't frequently check back multiway all-in hands post flop “to help eliminate players” and such.  He is the only person I've ever seen deny an otherwise unanimous agreement to pay the bubble without seeming to piss off other players.   He does of course piss off some players when he plays them for their chips, as I've seen once or twice, but in general the other regulars and barstaff seem to like him.

S4) 8k, playing very tight, seemingly placing a lot of emphasis on cashing. I do not know him and he could actually be a total ninja and pro.  No reason to assume, though. Facial piercings and about 35 years old.

S5) 75k, the other player whom I recognize as a regular.  Quiet and often using his phone to text or talk while playing.  Loose and plenty aggressive preflop – however more the sticky calling, floating, hero calling type.  You can't bluff him easily.  He and the Villain have much respect for each other.

S6) 75k, a player I was with all night from our previous table.  I believe him to be an ok player but with far too much ego and probably some faulty decision making processes.  He can be loose and aggressive but he can also get very attached to flopped mid pairs or hands like AK preflop.  It seems he believes he is awesome at poker and awesome in general.

S7) 40K, no reads, older man with a cool cowboy hat

S8) 30k, no reads, middle aged

Here is what happens.  6-7 hands into the FT, after 9th place busts, I'm on the BB, (I have 25k behind, after posting BB).  Seat 2 folds and Seat 3, the talented personality who usualy has chips but doesn't play reckless poker goes all in UTG+1. (shoulda said +1 in the title) I have vague memory of him doing something like this on previous nights, and if I am right, he does this with a very narrow range.  I believe he will be no weaker than TT+, AK, maybe AQ.  Everyone folded to me and I tanked.  He continued his dialogue with me – chummy, uninvasive – I asked him a question or two, he told me he would happily show the cards if I folded.  I believed him and have seen him voluntarily show good holdings plenty of times.  I folded, did not show my AK, and he flipped over QQ.  There was no rabbit.

Any comments? 

I was confident that he would not do this with anything AJ or below, and I found AQ unlikely.  Everything else has me hoping, and my stack of 12.5BB actually felt pretty decent in this non-ante FT environment.   I know I could have used a double up.  Should I not have felt so comfortable keeping my 12.5BB stack?  Should I have put him on a wider range?

Thanks for reading!