Vegas Poker $340 Deep Stack NLHE at Aria

Ok, after playing in a donkfest at the Caesar's Palace, I headed back to the room for a break and then onto the Aria Hotel for the afternoon.  I played in the special $340 NLHE tournament in the afternoon. Starting stacks were 15,000 but I was in the game after an hour so many players were way ahead of me.

One point, don't play on a table full of fish and then play the same way at the table full of sharks.  I didn't hit any flop in the first ten hands and short stacked myself.  But also nothing hit, my best hand of two pair was a gabage 9-5 offsuit.  Not a good start.  I made it two hours but it's hard to catch up to 35,000 stacks with tight players that will only put chips in the middle when they are ahead.

I was in a three way pot in the BB with AK off and decided to shove for 5,000 remaining.  I got snap called by the large stack holding pocket sevens and was out.  As it turned out the small blind and the under the gun raiser had a big decision so I'm guessing either one or both had an ace.  I should have factored it in to my decision. But really at this point I was a short stack.

I know reraising with big slick is an obvious tell. I know for a few chips more a big stack is not going to fold to the overbet.  It's not really an option.  You need chips badly and this is one of the premium hands.  You may not know your opponent but the worst case scenarion is general is a lower pocket pair.  Yes sometimes it's aces and that will happen. But in general you are in a race to double up and stay in it or finish.  A tournament needs races to go your way at some point in the tournament.  If you don't hit your hand that's the reality.
It seems like a bad play with a draw but a large stack can just keep firing on all streets and make you give up without seeing the river. That's just as likely. So if he does just have a pair you are still in it to the end. Sure sometimes it's a set but that's so rare you can't really consider it when you are short stacked.  You also have to consider that reraising all in will make some hands fold to let you get some chips some of the time and also they are calling not seeing the flop.  You are denying them information - maybe this flop they hit a set or two pair and you have no expected value from your hand.

Plus you can't play scared. Scared money doesn't make money.