PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converter

MP2 (t1340)
MP3 (t1400)
CO (t2100)
Button (t1220)
SB (t1380)
BB (t1220)
Hero (t1500)
UTG+1 (t2480)
MP1 (t2360)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero raises to t100, 2 folds, MP2 calls t100, MP3 calls t100, 3 folds, BB calls t80.

Ok...normal 5bb raise with KK (this stage of the tournament I usually go about 5bb unless there are more limpers before me)...

Flop: (t410) , , (4 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t410, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, BB calls t410.

Like the flop...nice pot sized bet to discourage the FD...hmm. Somebody called???

Turn: (t1230) (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t450, BB raises to t710, Hero calls t260.

Ok. Looking back, this is where I screwed up my hand. I'm thinking either A) should have pushed on the flop or B) should have checked this...Once I bet I felt I had more then enough odds to call his AI. I really felt that there was enough of a chance he didn't have a Q to make it worth my while...I only had to win (calling his AI) about once in 9 times to make it profitable...I also really thought that TP would have raised to see where he was at (let's face it, at that point there are really only 3 hands I could have been playing that made sense that had him beat and that was AA, KK or AQ). Since he didn't raise on the flop, I figured him for something like AT and he had put me on a hand that didn't have a Q...or at least there was enough of a chance that he was on something like that that I had the odds to call...

Should I have check folded the turn this early in the tournament? Should I have pushed on the flop???

River: (t2650) (2 players)

Final Pot: t2650

Comments???

With SnGs a lot of players can't get away from the trap as standard play and this may be a slowplay except it smells more like a bluff/semi-bluff for a few reasons.
1. It really early into the tourney and fishy Gus Hansen wanna-bes haven't been flushed out yet - so expect all kinds of weird plays!
2. If BB was going to slowplay TP he should have check-raised on the flop - there are 2 to the str8 and the flush so unless he has a set or 2 pair, TP should be re-raised on the flop - of course a fish probably isn't all that aware and may have a serious case of FPS! If I had a Q with a weak kicker I would have lead out on the flop.
3. The 2nd Q on the turn looks like you may be bluffing a TP and his 2nd pair suddenly looks like it may be boss so he now check-raises His re-raise to 710 adds up to 1220 so according to his pf stack size, he should now be all-in. You can't let the pot go for just another 260 - you're getting almost 9 to one - and if he is only 2nd best hand you got the most you could out of the KK.

I'm going to showdown with this hand.

Well...

I would have pushed the flop for sure...

But considering you did'nt, Check fold the turn I think. You still have 1000 chips left and plenty of time.

Of course you can be up agaist AT or a FD, but I think its -EV to be allin here: you win, ok you win, but if you lost you are almost out...

KJ