Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster. Had to create a profile here just to ask this question.
I reached the final table of a live poker tourney yesterday after 8 hours of playing. At that point I was 2nd place, but the chip leader had like the Mt. Everest of chips, in fact he was the chip leader for the whole tourney, that thing never seemed to diminish lol - it was like the guy had a beam of light coming from the sky and illuminating him all the way. Anyways, just so you can have a notion of the disparity, he had at least 4x the amount the chips I had as 2nd place.
So after a folding a couple of hands I got AQ at middle position. I raise 3BB everyone folds except the chip leader (who calls), I am thinking "nice, I can get a nice chunk of that stack now" .
Flop comes A 10 6 rainbow. All went all in immediately on an impulse, and the villain instantly calls (which made me regret instantly doing that). We went to showdown and the bad news hit - he had pocket 10's and flopped a set, of course, just because I decided to go all in... And obviously I did not hit another A so this play cost me the tourney. I was enraged lol.
This is the range I had him in more or less:
Just wanted to know if I did the right move, or was I too reckless and over confident? If I had won the hand, then I would not even be thinking about it, of course we would be thinking we did the right play and that it was a great play.
Thanks for your input