All,

    Just decided to take the plunge and join TPE.  I have been a long time listener of the podcast and that alone has helped my game, I figured the full subscription would help take my game to the next level.

Live play, this is a satelite tournament, where there are 22 players who will play 12 tournies and the top four in points will get a trip to Vegas for a 1500 WSOP tourney.  We get 10 points for a bounty and top 10 get points where the top 3 get the majority.  We follow the structure of the WSOP events and start with 4500 chips.  The levels increase every 30 minutes and we only skip the 25/25 level.  At the time of this tourney I was 5th in points with 3 more tournies to be played, which I think should come into play during my decision making.  This is a hand I played in the last tourney….

blinds 100-200, about 20 minutes to the next level.  I have been knitting a sweater, played a total of three hands all tourney.  This is not my normal play and was even commented on by other players at the table.

I have about 6500 on the button and am dealt QJ.  A middle postion player opens for 500 with about 5k behind, so I call .  This player is fairly tight, but can get a little creative from time to time.

This is the first question, do I even call here? 

Flop comes Q63 and player leads out for 1k, to me it seemed like a C bet so I call wanting to see how he acted on the turn.

Turn comes the 4 giving me top pair and a flush draw.  Player leads with a shove which I have covered by about 1k.  Without the , this is an easy fold.  However with the  it gives me sooo many more outs I felt as though a call was warranted.  In fact I put the player on As, Ks or AQ, but was hoping for As and Ks giving me two more outs.  I really felt this was borderline either way.  Thoughts?

FYI he had AQos and I bricked.