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23 hands so far played in this deepstacked tournament (30K GTD on UB) and I have villain on 26/4/3...
The hand plays itself, but I'm wondering what the best option is in these kind of situations. I'm more of a cashgamer and I'd snapcall this anytime and I'd put him on a Queen with a flushdraw or a slowplayed set.
Any suggestions? Thanks a lot

No Limit Holdem Tournament
10 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG Hero (2870)
UTG+1 KeepBettinIt (2065)
UTG+2 IkonDHologram (3445)
MP1 StephisDad (3065)
MP2 panzerT72 (3290)
MP3 PDX747 (3520)
CO MarkFSU1 (2780)
SB bwilso20 (3015)
BB treyes5270 (2670)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-flop: (30, 10 players) Hero is UTG K K
1 fold, Hero raises to 75, 6 folds, bwilso20 calls 65, 1 fold

Flop: T 3 Q (170, 2 players)
bwilso20 checks, Hero bets 145, bwilso20 calls 145

Turn: 7 (460, 2 players)
bwilso20 checks, Hero bets 410, bwilso20 goes all-in 2795, 2240 to Hero (2240)?

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that you showed a pretty good amount of strength throughout the hand and he says he's not scared.

He might have picked up some kind of pair + FD on the turn or something, but I don't think that is that likely. I think he probably has a set or maybe even slow played aces. Unless you had some read that he likes to get it in lite alot, I think i'd grit my teeth and fold. (I don't play deepstack tournies, but in a cash game I think i'd fold and I think they play fairly close to cash game early).

In my opinion, these spots are why I prefer deep-stack tourneys......although this one just looks like a standard 2x tourney....?

Anyways - you can just get out of these marginal spots and move on. This is a set or 10-Q enough of the time to make it more optimal to lick your small wounds and move on. On rare occasion you'll get the total AQ donk bet making this move, but I don't think you're seeing it enough to make calling this redic over-bet profitable with what you have left behind. Pick a better spot to get it in the middle.

But maybe I'm just a nit.........

I think we're basically flipping vs a rando's range here (and thats only if you include hands that beat us, AQ/KQ, and a few pair+FD and OESD combo's), with about ~1300 already in the pot before calling the turn shove. The more pair+FD/OESD/bare FD possibilities that you believe exist in his range (and I wouldn't fully discount them by any means, especially with the Ad still being live), the easier it would be to stack off.

edit: I think it's somewhat close, but I don't really respect rando's that play too many hands much so with all this overlay and the fact that I can't seem to justifiably narrow his range any further than the above, I personally lean toward getting it in in this context.