Was I wrong here?
Hello all. New to the forums. A few months ago I played a big event in Cherokee. My starting day had like 1900 players. Anyways it's the final starting flight...we are down to 162 left and 130 get paid and then a few more after that is the cutoff for the final day when this hand comes up. I get dealt pocket Jack's in the big blind..folds around to the button who min raises. I have just over 82k in chips...I ask him for a count and he has 86k. I min three bet and he min 4 bets. I can't remember the exact amount but it was somewhere around 20k. I shove and he doesn't even let me finish saying all in before he calls. We flip over our cards and he shows ak off. Ace in the window and I'm out. I have been going over this hand in my head since it happened and I honestly can't for the life of me justify his call or think of anything else I could have done different. He had literally played like 4 hands total in the 3 hours I was at this table. He wasn't talkative...he didn't seem aggressive...the only hand I saw him show was a flopped straight in an unraised pot. Anyways...should I have just folded to his 4 bet? Thanks.
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hi,

I guess this really depends on your stacksize and how much you'd like to min cash. both things we don't know...

Generally speaking you could just flat his raise since you close the action. If min cash is important and your stack above 20 bigs this is a low variance road against this nit. if - as happend - the flop comes A-high and villain fires, you can probybly get away from the hand (maybe call once).

but assuming your stack wasn't more than 30 bigs you played it fine.

Thanks for the reply. I thought about calling. But I didn't want him to be able to push me off if a king or an ace showed up. But yea I guess he wouldn't have been doing this without at least one of those in his hand. It just bothers me because I don't want to be afraid of this spot in the future. I guess thinking about it more the right play would have been just to call. Just figured I'd get some more opinions cause I don't really have many people to go over hands with. So thanks again for the reply. Also I didn't know until about ten minutes before this hand that they were gonna stop play and ONLY the top five percent we're going to make day 2. And at the time I knew I was not in the top 5 percent. We only had three more levels to go until they stopped play so I'm thinking subconsciously I wanted to chip up and saw this as a great opportunity...plus he was on the button which made me think he just wanted the blinds. I guess in the future I just won't allow myself to get into a min raise war and just flat with this hand. Thanks again.

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Not clear on blinds—-was it 1k/2k?

Seems like a standard spot. Guessing you were both short at that point In the tourney.

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