Thanks for taking time btw to read this. Just getting into stage of my poker journey with hand discussions. Please advise if I can describe better.
$200 Memorial Day tournament recently. So various levels of players. 10K chips, blinds moving up every 30 mins from a start of 100/50.
Somewhere around 400/200 mark, I picked up AK non-suited from Cutoff and raised 1200 and was re-raised to 2400 by Button. We both had about 13K at this time.
I flat called raise. Flop Q-A-9.
I checked and Button shoved. I tanked and folded after thought. Was still early in tourney. Player had played smart up to that point only showing good hands. Raising and betting with what seemed good bet sizes up to that point. I at that time had only shown very tight image and showdowns with premium hands up to that point.
Questions for your thought:
Should I have re-raised pre-flop?
Should I have bet first instead of checking and folded to a raise?
Was a fold reasonable?
Normally I'm ok with busting out if I've played my hand to my best ability and would've had no problem calling and losing but didn't this time and for some reason this hand has replayed itself in my head a few times since. 
Probably because I all of a sudden went card dead and had to play very defensive for quite a while after that.
thoughts?
thanks everyone
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