$30 MTT - Final Table, What Would You Have Done?
Join Date: Oct 2013
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So I make it to the final table at a live game out of about 70 people. 10 people left, only 7 get paid. I'm on the button, first hand at final table gets dealt. Average stack is about 800k, I have about 700k. Blinds are 40, 80k, about to go up to 50, 100k. I get dealt pocket queens. Again, I'm on the button. Everyone folds except for one guy before me who raises to 330k. For whatever reason, I figure he has a smaller pocket pair at best. So instead of calling, I shove, which would leave him with only 150k. He calls. He turns 4 of a kind.
I keep wondering if I should have played it differently. Should I have just called? Should I have folded since I could have just waited around for about 8 hands before being forced to play and hoped to hit the payouts by then?
What would you have done?
Join Date: May 2010
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You played this perfectly. You had a little less than 10 BB's, you had no room to do anything besides go all in if you wanted to play this hand. It's a fist pump all in imo at a final table bubble.
Calling preflop shouldn't really ever be an option here and I would never fold this hand. The only reason I could see not to play this hand is if you had a specific read on this opponent that raising 4x meant he had either Kk or Aa, since it was a rather large raise at 4x the blinds. But then again that could have just been a normal raise for this table or person but you will know that.
Don't think about it too much this is a normal spot and you got unlucky. Theres no other way you should have played it with under 10 big blinds at a final table bubble
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whiners gonna whine
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