Did i make a good call even though i lost the pot?

Im at a final table (NLH) with 7 other players. Blinds are 200/400 and i have about 6500 chips and am chip leader. 5 of the other players have about 3000-4000 with a couple of short stacks with about 1500. The blind size has called for aggression which i have been taking advantage of because the other players have tighten up due to the bubble coming up an the fear of going out. As noone else is blind stealing too much i look looser than i actually am playing, anyway i pick up QQ in hijack position and raise to 1000 chips, the big blind goes all in for 3700 chips(which is under 10 BB), which will leave me 2800 if i call! I did call an he flipped over AK and won with two pair!! damn it! I then felt all my hard work of blind stealing was for nothing, because i made that call! I then came fifth an just won my money back.

Was this a good call, or should i have sat back and waited for the others to make moves on each other?

one more thing

Also would you of called with 99-JJ and AK/AQ? as i only had 16 BB myself?

I mean it depends on the regards of the tourny? how much it cost the payouts. depends on what your goal was" besides just winning the tournamnet" were you trying to make a profit, trying to win big. i mean what were your thoughts for the tournament??

It was a good call. Classic coin flip situation. Shiit happens.

waited for the others to make moves on each other?
it is not a solution for waiting others..
I am also hate QQ cause if I go allin,I always loose it
so I prefer just check and see flop and other players reaction..not raise preflop

Final table and last hands of tournament and blinds are going up.. You need chips and push out other players..you raised 1000k and then allin came by others.. QQ is not bad hand..and if I were you, I called,too
sometimes you need like movements in tournament but as we saw, you lost
other player had nothing with AK preflop but he won...

If you have a strong hand like that and nobody can touch your chip stack you make that call every time. QQ is better with only 1 or max 2 callers. With two callers you only have to beat the one with the larger chip stack most or the time to come close to breaking even and you knock off a player.

It was an unnecessary coinflip. But mathematically u r a bit favorite:
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QQ vs AK
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QQ - 53% of winning
AKo - 46% of winning

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But if u the chip leader IMHO, u can wait for some better spots, cuz blinds dont treath u.

If ur target is only WIN the 1st place, u made it right.
Not a bad call, bad situation, bad beat! Its only my opinion, i can also be wrong, see u at tables!

aLoser4evR said:

You played it right.
Since it was the final table and they were low you were going to get called no matter what you bet, sitting wit AK just made it easy for them. They had to try sometime and luck went their way, this time, next time it could go your way.

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Exactly, final table situation, QQ with chip lead, almost insta call to over-shove. Only 2 hands have you crushed, one coin flip, and rest you have big lead over range of short stack in short handed game. Once you've done the job of getting to final table only real goal now is win and to do that you have to take eveyone's chips. If you are folding QQ preflop not sure what you are planning to play to win the thing.

I think you should put him on a range. I would put him on AK+, if he is supertight. But there is already 2200 dead money in the pot, and AK is more common than AA or KK, so its kind of ("coinflip" 60% of the time, way behind 40%)

Kind of a close call I was going to say. If you add a possible bluff to his range, then call, if you dont think he is capable of bluffing there, then fold.