UTG was fairly tight, but not rock-ish. I figured him for the usual "two big cards". If he raised slightly more, or went all-in, I would have certainly folded. Here I'm the big stack in the BB, have the potential to knock out another player (and be ITM), and even if I lose I'm still in good shape. 63o is quite the terrible hand, no doubt. What do you think of calling here given all these conditions?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (4 handed)

SB (t4285)
Hero (t5550)
UTG (t1515)
Button (t2150)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
UTG raises to t450, 2 folds, Hero calls t300.

I would post the flop and final results, but I think they'd definitely shape the responses.

Personally I wait for a better spot. If you want to get aggressive as big stack, I would rather see you raise with 36o than call with it. The only way I would call a raise in this situation is if I thought UTG was a weak player that I could push out of this pot on the flop (unless he hits it real hard). A lot of players will play weak on the bubble so this is not a bad play a lot of the time.

I assume you will bet any flop into this raiser? If not, if you check and he bets into you he will be pot commited and you will have to fold or likely go to showdown.

Great point there CJ - keeping the small stack in the game often makes your opponents extra careful.