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[detonate69]

Okay so in yesterdays daily tournament at the local B&M I made the final table. There were about 8 players left and I'm sitting in middle position with probably the 4th biggest stack. only 2 people are really big the rest are pretty close. Blinds are 5/10. I've got about 30 chips.So I get dealt AJo and am thinking great I haven't gotten a hand in a while. Then UTG goes all in for probably 20 chips and the next player also goes all in for about 30 which is my stack. I mucked my cards. AJo didn't seem to good to me after 2 all ins infront of me. Turns out I would have won with high card because no one hit anything but you couldn't know that. Looking back I actually feel I should have played that hand. I didn't get any good cards after that and busted out 6th.What do you think?

[Slovak39]

i think you made the right play, especially against two all ins. ace jack isnt that strong of a hand.

[wrto4556]

Good fold. Let them knock each other out, it's +EV.

[Emptyeye]

Agreed. AJ isn't really a hand I want to call ONE all-in with, let alone TWO. "But it was the best hand I've seen in awhile!" really doesn't make it any stronger in that position.

[Absolute]

You can't call AJ off with two all-ins.You might have been ok in this pot, but four times out of five you are gonna be someones bitch

[RonBurgundy]

detonate69 said:

Okay so in yesterdays daily tournament at the local B&M I made the final table.  There were about 8 players left and I'm sitting in middle position with probably the 4th biggest stack.  only 2 people are really big the rest are pretty close.  Blinds are 5/10.  I've got about 30 chips.So I get dealt AJo and am thinking great I haven't gotten a hand in a while.  Then UTG goes all in for probably 20 chips and the next player also goes all in for about 30 which is my stack.  I mucked my cards.  AJo didn't seem to good to me after 2 all ins infront of me.  Turns out I would have won with high card because no one hit anything but you couldn't know that.  Looking back I actually feel I should have played that hand.  I didn't get any good cards after that and busted out 6th.What do you think?

you said 5/10, but u gave no value for ur chips. If you only had 3x big blind, you might have to call here. Also, how many places paid?

[DCWildcat]

You're saying 6 of 8 players only have 1/3 BB? Wow.I'm going to disagree with the others here...At 1/3 BB, you're way deep in the double-up-or-fold arena, deep enough that you need to either double up twice or triple up. If you're in middle position you're what, 3-5 hands from being in the blinds? You simply are NOT going to get a hand as good as AJ in that short a time, and you NEED to double before they hit because they're going to halve your stack. It sucks that there are already 2 pushers, but given the circumstances, there's a legit shot you got one of them beat. My guess is a medium pocket pair UTG, and a guy taking a gamble on high cards vs. small pair in UTG+1 (maybe even KQ). Guy in 2nd position probably figured everyone would fold. In this likely scenario, each player has roughly the same shot (34% for PP, 32% for you and UTG+1).If you were to win here, you could sit back and watch the others kill each other left and glide to a graceful 3rd place finish. Also remember that if you have the original raiser covered, if you bust out, you finish in 7th, not 8th.