Bubble

[motorhead]

I recently played in a 10 seat mtt online for stakes much higher than i usually allow myself to, $50+5, which had a prize pool of $2000 as was guaranteed, and was matched exactly as had 40 runners. top 5 paid with 5th taking $160 and 1st taking $800. anyway, to my surprise i played bloody well, if i do say so myself, and from an early double up with QQ i lead the tourney pretty much through to the final table. After over 2 hours of solid play, and down to final 6 still holding chip lead i was dealt Qd Jd in BB. I had roughly 18K in chips to 2nd place's 13K. Second chip leader was in the SB. blinds at this point are 1K-2K. action folds to SB who calls and i check. Flop comes 8d 9d Qc, and SB bets 4K, one third his remaining stack. we have top pair with not a terrible kicker, inside straight draw, flush draw, and straight flush draw. What do we do? See the turn and run if we get bet at again without us improving?, which for 4K is a pretty sizeable bet when next one out goes home with nowt. Or is this an attempt to pick up the 2000 already in the pot hoping we had nothing from BB? Can't really give much of a read as only met this player at the final table but all round play at the table was tight as was probably my table image. Thoughts? I think i played it poorly in hindsight but it was 3.30 am and id obviously used all my poker ability getting to where i was! Ill let you know later if anyones interested.

[Dice Man]

Go all in.

[motorhead]

you are correct diceman exactly what i did. he had pocket Q's and i didn't improve. next hand as SB i had Ac 10C, went all in and ran in to BB's QQ again. Oh well, next time.

[Dice Man]

Well that's a big bowl of wrong. The only kind of consolation I can offer is that the blinds are pretty massive at this stage and your chiplead in the first place has lost some of its influence through that. Clearly these 5 other players have deserved to enter this luckfest through staying alive for so long, and you just happen to be the victim of bad luck at the wrong time. Both of the moves are the right moves here.

[motorhead]

For me it was one of those situations where you can taste first place. i think i just jumped the gun a little bit and, like you said, with the blinds being so big, coupled with his large bet, my all in maybe lost some of its percieved strength and i was asking to be called. still wasn't as weak as i could've been, cardplayer gave me 36% after the flop, but I wasn't exactly going to be taking him off his hand!