So i was playing day 2 of a tourney yesterday and this hand came up

blinds: 1200/2400 ante: 300

my stack: 75k

It was the first level of day 2 so i had no info at all on the players at my table, players were playing pretty standard, raising 2.5x and showing AK/KK/AQ. Nothing worth mentioning until now.

villain (~80k) raises UTG+2 to 6.2k. I 3bet on the btn to 14.5k to see where i'm at. SB (~110k) shoves, villain snap calls, hero???

Fold and wait for the next hand? How is this tough?

Well, uh, you saw where you were.

Yeah i folded and both had AK

the JJ would have held up and i would have tripled my stack. I was so tilted after this hand it was ridiculous, couldn't believe it. But i guess it was the right laydown then...just needed to hear from you pros

easy fold!

You see why this isn't really relevant, don't you? The lesson here is to assign both players a reasonable hand range and determine if your holding has the proper equity to call. Tilting because you *could* have tripled up is a much bigger problem. Maybe you are playing over your BR?

Yeah i know i tilt easily. But i wan't playing over my bankroll, i currently have a 10k roll and the buyin was 300. I was pretty comfortable playing it..I dont always play tourneys i prefer sticking to cash, but sometimes i take shots for the big payouts. i tilted because the first prize was 16k and the field was really soft, if i won that pot i'm sure i would make a deep run

but i know i cant be results oriented, it was the right laydown and if another situation like that came up i'd fold again

30 buy ins isn't playing over your roll?

not if you are not a pro..i only play like once a week and a have a decent job, 10k is the money i set aside for poker to play 1/2 or sometimes 2/5, im pretty comfortable spending 300 on a tourney once in a while