$Freeroll NLHE MTT: Is this wrong? FRESH from tonight's ACR freeroll

SO I've copy pasted the hand replay below, this guy FYI had AA before this hand & AQ which he both limped in, I had 15 BB so I thought this would've been a good steal. Marked the player as a sneaky player but still had to do it!
Any views/comments welcome!




No Limit Hold'em Tournament T75/T150
Buy-in: CardsChat $100 Daily Freeroll
Winning Poker Network
8 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T4,243)
UTG+1 - UTG+1 (T1,250)
MP - MP (T2,713)
MP2 - MP2 (T2,360)
CO - CO (T1,945)
BTN - Hero (T2,357)
SB - SB (T6,759)
BB - BB (T1,620)

Preflop: (T345, 8 players) Hero is BTN with A♣ 2♠
UTG calls T150, 4 folds, Hero raises to T2,342 (all-in), 2 folds, UTG calls T2,192

Flop: 5♥ 6♦ 4♦ (T5,029, 2 players, 1 all-in - UTG: T1,886, Hero: T0)

Turn: 7♠ (T5,029, 2 players, 1 all-in - UTG: T1,886, Hero: T0)

River: T♥ (T5,029, 2 players, 1 all-in - UTG: T1,886, Hero: T0)

Total Pot: T5,029
UTG shows A♠ K♦ (with High card A (kicker K))
Hero shows A♣ 2♠ (with High card A)

UTG wins T5,029 with High card A (kicker K)

Generally I'm only going all-in with A2o if I'm opening the action or really short. You said he has limped in with strong hands, shoving here to steal the small pot just seems unnecessarily risky.

Not a good spot to shove in with A2. I will only do this if I am short and opening the action.

In this case I would need to be down to like 4 or 5 BBs.

I would raise, but not shove in if it were folded to me.

Have a look at push/fold charts.
According to:
- math, with 15BB you should have waited for a better hand (i.e. fold here)
- regular starting hands you should have suspected UTG would have better cards

Fold, you have 15BB and he limped from UTG, he can easily have you dominated, especially if you have seen him limp AA and AQ.

Agree with what's been said, a fold pre for me. Especially against tricky player

Fold. I dont get this limping such strong hands. I keep seeing it also in these low games. AA dont want 5 players in the pot, so they are just trapping themselves. BUt its like 100% of their range is a limp and wondering is someone out there teaching this as some new strategy for low buy in games. Its like they have turned no limit into a hybrid Limit holdem preflop - no limit post flop -

Especially from an UTG limp your A2o isn't fairing that we'll against his range. Especially if you've seen him limp AA previously I don't think that is a profitable shove. I would prefer a small raise (2.5 x)

With a short stack, A2 looks alot better than it really is. The hero has position, and it's reasonable to believe, the best hand. The real problem was not taking into account a player who slow played AA.

Yes this is wrong. Villain has shown a tendency to limp very strong hands, and you have to ask yourself, is A2 offsuit ahead of his limping range given the information you have already? Sure you block some Ax hands, but it's a terrible hand to play for all your chips to an UTG limping range. Even against hands like 98s, 65s, QTs you're only barely ahead.