~370 runners, top 36 paid, 45 left at this point. We're 8 handed and I'm the shortest stack at a difficult table with 97k in chips. Blinds 3000/1500- 500 ante.

Villain #1- Aggro reg with lots of good scores here. Played with him a handful of times. He has about $150k in live earnings. One of the big stacks at this table with ~200-250k. Playing aggro and a bit on the laggy side. Not sure if he remembers me, but I played with him with 2 tables left once in a similar tourney. I ended up chopping that tourney heads up (not with him).

Villain #2- Another aggro reg, well known east coast grinder with almost $400k in live earnings. He's playing solid closer to the TAG side from what I;ve seen in the 1hr or so I've been at table. Also a big stack ~200-250k. I've played with him in at least one other tourney here but I don;t think he really has any info on me or even remembers me.

Action:

Villain#1 opens UTG to 8k
Villain #2 flats in MP
Hero in CO, AQoff, 3-bets to 22k
Villain#1 fairly quickly sticks in a stack of 100k
Villain#2 folds
Hero tanks and calls off the remaining 75k

Thoughts on the play? Any reason to just flat pre against a couple of aggro regs? Any reason to just jam instead of 3-betting? I don't think it's terrible to jam since there's over 24k out there when it gets to me. Part of me was thinking this is an UTG raiser, so 3-bet and re-evaluate was better than jamming. These guys are both agg enough to stick it on me with 99 for instance in this spot. I was dwindling down at this table and was a good target to push around with the bubble approaching. I have a tight image. I 3 bet #2's button open from the SB and took it down one hand. Other than that I opened 2 other hands at this table and had to fold post flop both times.

I don't expect anything worse than AQ to jam on me here, but I don't mind a big flip since we are approaching the bubble. I'm not one to be pushed around and struggle into a min cash. I'm ok with taking a big flip for a contending stack -which I would have here if I won. That in mind, the fact that he is agg, the fact I'm a target to be pushed around here, AND the fact that he stuck the 100k rather quickly led me to call (and I block AA, AK, QQ).

So I called, he said "whoops" and turns over 22. He flops a set and that's how I've been running in tourney's folks! Frustration city since I only play 3-4 tourneys a year and a run like this is hard to come by. Sigh.... Sorry if this is TLDR

Foxwoods coverage of the hand if anyone cares