This is a $10 headhunter - every player has a bounty on their head, although that probably doesn't make much difference in this hand since the BB here only had an $8 bounty. No big jumps in pay structure until top 3 or so. I'm obv playing for first and that nets just under $300.

I'd decided I would call a 3 bet shove from the big stack to my left before I'd raised so I instacalled but now wondering whether that was pretty stupid since I was guaranteed a spot at the final table and would have been better going after medium or small stacks. I'm 5th in chips by the way - at least 2 stacks on life support. Read on villain is that he has been very loose and active with his big chip lead. Not got a read on a 3 bet pre flop shove though.

Blinds: (800/1600/200)

UTG: (40206 in chips)
Hero (30523 in chips)
BTN: (73337 in chips)
SB: (58440 in chips)
BB: (3542 in chips)

(Pot is 3400)

----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Hero [Ah Jd]
1 fold
Hero: raises to 4800
Sharp3y: raises to 73137 and is all-in
2 folds
Ada110111: snap calls 25523


Thanks in advance...

Is this too dull?

Sorry about a preflop question, might be obvious but I'm genuinely in two minds here.

i think you are a little too deep to be calling all-in here. with a hand like AJ this would be great if you were the one 3-betting all-in over someone else's raise, but not so much when you are calling with zero fold equity

with your read though and the fact that you thought out what you would do beforehand it's not terrible or anything

After the SB snap calls, fold.