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Originally Posted by trickrick
I guess at the time (and I was around double his stack but still second bottom) I fancied taking him out and hence guarnateeing a place in the final for myself..A calculated gamble, and with AK you generally have a near 50% success rate even against a lower pair and I took the risk.. The guy was desperate and I assumed he had a high level couple of cards and maybe a pair, but I took the chance..
I am willing to accept that this was the wrong move if you can tell me the reasoning behind folding AK.. 
Havng said that, this will no doubt reveal the reason why I do tend to bubble more than the average bear (to quote Yogi )..........  |
In a normal tournament your move is perfectly fine. There is nothing worse than seeing someone stalling and folding at the bubble just to sneak into the money.
However, this is NOT a normal tournament. In a satellite busting through the bubble is all that counts. It's not your job to take out the short stack, fine if you pick up a monster then call with it and you're odds on to get through, otherwise you need to push if you have a good holding and blinds are making it desperate and you'll hit them before the short stack. Or, let someone else take the guy on, if he beats you as happened here, you've put yourself in trouble so close to qualifying. If someone else doubles him up, so be it, at least he's only closer or just ahead of you now. And the guy doubling him up may just replace him as the short stack.
Of course there's a good chance you're ahead when you call, but you're behind to any pair. You were only a little under 60/40 in the hand as it was.
It's hard luck, and there's never a right and wrong, especially when you get your money in ahead, but I might have been more cautios there.
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