So I played a $75 tourny locally over the weekend, been a while since I've played any poker, live or online. A few Friday night $25 tournies at the Elks, but otherwise not playing.

Anyway, one hand I played on Sunday comes to mind where I'd like to get some feedback.

Early in the game, blinds are something like 100/200. I've got probably 5000 and is about what I started with. I've been playing very tight. I'm on the button, and make a 2x bet with AQ, sb, bb and one other caller. Flop comes all clubs and I make 2 pair. sb and bb check, caller goes all in for 1700. I survey the table to see what the sb and bb have left, sb is short stack and bb has me by at least 2x in chips.

I decide to isolate the all in and go all in myself. sb folds and the bb huffs and puffs basically not happy with my play.

My decision to push was intentional to keep the bb with more chips than me out of the hand, and didn't want her chasing a flush herself. Also thinking or hoping the all in bet from the other player was chasing a flush as well. He had already made the flush, and I was beat.

After a while I think about my play and think maybe the better play was to let the bb call the 1700, keeping her in play, as a 4th club did not come on the turn or river and there's a chance I could have won some of her chips.

Was I wrong in my play?

The way I've been playing and running recently I definitely shouldn't be giving advice. But IMO, you made the right move. It's 118-1 against the caller hitting their flush on the first 3 cards of the flop and I would have put them on a possible flush draw as you did. 2 pair is a very vulnerable hand, so I would have pushed all in too, with the higher stack very probably behind and drawing. If she hits you're probably toast. If she just has an ace and hits 2 pair, yes you've got a chance of taking some of her chips, if she's still behind. But you really need her out of the pot, because you don't know for certain what she has. If she wants to draw, she has to pay.

I dont think you can c/f this river, maybe people who have seen results are being slightly biased. If you look at it all we cant soley put him on TT, 77, 66or a made straight you just dont flop them that often, I mean AA and KK could be in his range but are unlikely as we can account for 4 of the 8 cards. Where you going for a cr on flop?, also I think bet more on turn and river as you should be looking to get stacks in here. Villain can always turn up with a wierd played AQ or maybe AT, river sucks but you cant fold i think.

I would tend to agree. The only questionable bet I see is the min raise preflop. You know you will have at least the two blinds in there if not another limper or two. Unless a perfect flops comes off you are going to have a tough decision to make even if you hit the flop hard. But the all in raise was the right move. With a 5000 stack.... 400 preflop and 1700 on the flop more than 40% of your stack is out there. You can't afford the BB to hit some weird draw and force you out of the pot without showing it down. If you get out-flopped AND out-drawn there's not much you can do.