ran into AK holding AQ right decision?

Just played last night guys just thought I'd say went into the tourney late and got 10000 chips in a freezeout. Had to pay 200 ante to enter and the blinds were 100-200 soon found myself 500 down without having a hand to play. Break came with my stack around 7500. Got changed to another table and the blinds are 200-400 my stacks around 6900 having had junk for an hour and I pick up AQ off UTG, I raise 1200 guy next to me calls as does the SB. The flop comes AJ5 with two hearts on board the SB moves AI with his stack at about 10000, I felt it was a compulsory call so I did the other guy folded of course the SB had AK and it took me out, I have heard Harrington folds AQoff UTG but that sounds ultra tight to me. Could I have played it better or was it just one of those things? I was on the blinds next and was getting down to an M of around ten or less. Also I thought about it and playing a tourney late you soon loose chips as the blinds are higher and you are under pressure a bit but then again others have busted out before I'd even started playing is this a good thing or bad? cheers guys..the sniper

How many people were left in the tourney and how many places were paid out?

AQ tends to play about like 99 or 88. Its a hand you really seldom want to see the flop with so either you shove up front or prepare yourself to raise/fold with.

IMO

That was basically what I was getting at as well dg. If it was a spot where they are on the bubble, then AQo can easily be folded as there is still some time as right now he has about 17BB left(granted that's going to go down shortly). If you are a ways away from the money or already ITM but a ways away from a good payout, then you could push. I don't like the raise here at all because it doesn't necessarily commit you to the pot, but it's putting almost 20% of your stack in. Push/Fold IMO

AK in SB just flatting here with the amount in the pot & stack sizes as they were is really odd (therefore I wouldnt' typically be putting villain on AK in this spot.... although it'd be player dependant obv).

Is villain going to openshove the flop with AJ?.. I doubt it, prob c/C or c-Rs ai.
Pretty sure I'm never folding here.

Harrington's comment about AQo utg is for earlier in the MTT, not in a situation like this.
fwiw, Harrington series on tourney play is a great read & decent for getting a foundation for NLHE Tourney play...'BUT' it is getting a bit dated now.

Looks pretty standard. I'm definitely not folding here

I think this is a situation where you are screwed either way. If you just open shove here your still gonna get called by sb where your dominated and in the crapper. If you raise like you did and hit your ace how can you fold to the all in? What's the point of raising this hand if your just gonna fold to an AJ5 flop? The only winning play here would have been to fold pre, but as you said that seems a little too tight even UTG. So either play super nitty or chalk it up to bad luck.

Yea, it's a little too conservative for most of todays play. Gives great foundations, but you need to tweak the info to make it really worthwhile.

I'm just curious why villain didn't 3-bet jam preflop so we could fold.

Unfortunately there's nothing you could do about that one.

I'm guessing Tp2k is going to break every player you're going to come accross on that board with villain's action as it is.

Without knowing anythign else about villain, I'd guess he's bad.

I would call here in most instances but it will be inconsideration of my opponents playing style at the table.

thanks guys for all your help, thanks poker orifice you know i value your opion as iv'e said before, in hindsight you can't fold but but one good player i know said unless he's got 2 pair or trips on the flop he's folding to an AI especially in big tourneys e.g its cost you £1000 to enter