$1.10 NLHE MTT: AK vs QQ Final Table Bubble Big $1.10

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Was chipleading the the Big $1.10 on pokerstars with 11 people left out of 4787 entrants. Played a couple hands against villain and he seemed quite aggresive with a VPIP of 28. ICMIZER shows Plus EV... But Im really not sure if my moves were the right ones... Any thoughts? Thanks in advance :)

PokerStars Hand #171267623320: Tournament #1924313220, $1.00+$0.10 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XLII (30000/60000) - 2017/06/03 1:42:00 WET [2017/06/02 20:42:00 ET]
Table '1924313220 20' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: graniteplan (3872651 in chips)
Seat 3: YannickPoker1 (3392426 in chips)
Seat 5: mertholstar (1808660 in chips)
Seat 6: ask702 (2123912 in chips)
Seat 7: Tarcídio (2532974 in chips)
graniteplan: posts the ante 6250
YannickPoker1: posts the ante 6250
mertholstar: posts the ante 6250
ask702: posts the ante 6250
Tarcídio: posts the ante 6250
ask702: posts small blind 30000
Tarcídio: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to YannickPoker1 [Ad Ks]
graniteplan: folds
YannickPoker1: raises 75000 to 135000
mertholstar: folds
ask702: folds
Tarcídio: raises 215312 to 350312
YannickPoker1: raises 429688 to 780000
Tarcídio: raises 1746724 to 2526724 and is all-in
YannickPoker1: calls 1746724
*** FLOP *** [4h 8h Jh]
*** TURN *** [4h 8h Jh] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [4h 8h Jh Js] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Tarcídio: shows [Qd Qs] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
YannickPoker1: shows [Ad Ks] (a pair of Jacks)
Tarcídio collected 5114698 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5114698 | Rake 0
Board [4h 8h Jh Js 7d]
Seat 1: graniteplan folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: YannickPoker1 showed [Ad Ks] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 5: mertholstar (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ask702 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Tarcídio (big blind) showed [Qd Qs] and won (5114698) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
 
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I'm not sure why you raised preflop with less than 3 big blinds, especially against someone who is aggressive. Maybe a flat call after the reraise on the flop. But, your opponent wasn't going anywhere with that hand so I guess it doesn't matter. Probably would have been better not to include the result.
 
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I think that should be never rases all-in on AK, call and see the flop. It is a risk!
 
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NH, just unlucky. What does he re-raise pre with? Lots of worse A's I would think, as well as pocket pairs. You're flipping with all pairs except AA and KK, and crushing all his weaker A's. He shows up with AQ, AJ, A10 enough here that you're way ahead of his range. This is a standard all in pre, don't second guess it when you miss against a pocket pair.
 
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Don't 4bet if you're not willing to gii to a 5bet shove. You cannot 4bet fold a hand that strong.
With AK you want to be the person shoving with fold equity not calling all in.
 
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Tough spot.

Post-mortem: What bothers me most about this hand is that the villain is re-raising from BB. Here me out first, what hands do you think he's going to do that with? Without any consideration, I would assume it to be something like 77+, A9s+, ATo+; which you're 55:45 favorite against. But taking into account that he's in BB and can flat a lot of these hands and the fact that you could bust him, I don't think he's going that wide either; I would think 77+, AQs+, AKo; hands that he can go all-in with and be happy about it (accept the risk). And now all of a sudden, against that range you're a 55:45 dog.
In your shoes, I would have flatted the re-raise. Because: First, people play way tighter in spots like this (OOP, in BB) in bubble scenario and second, you were the chip leader and you had tremendous positional advantage.
That said, I don't hate your play; just unlucky that you were facing a monster.
 
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The moment he 5 bets and goes all in you are clearly against QQ+ maybe JJ+, and AK, That's all of his range. You are 60:40 dog against his range. Do the math yourself with the cheaps in the middle.
If I was short stack I would get it in happily but when I'm cheap leader and can dominate the play I would be more wiling toward playing AK more passive ONLY against someone can make a big dent to my stack. If they have 1/3 of my stack or less I will get it in.
With ICM I feel it's close still and sometimes you may want to let go of a situation that you are slightly ahead or has small profit to protect your stack.

Don't overthink it.
 
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GO BIG or GO HOME! It's my choice when I play small buy-ins because I don't care about the buy in. If not today, I will get it tomorrow. This is a close spot that I will take to win the tournament.
If you would have won the flip, you had a monster stack that could abuse EVERYONE to make sure you are going to win the tourney before start of final table:)
 
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What is the reason for 4 bet? if you would not 4-bet to keep the fold option open against 5-bet shove, that was a mistake move!

you should never call the 5-bet shove with AK!!!! you should either call his 3-bet on taking the flop in position or 4-bet jamming with your AK! I would personally go with the first option considering the FT ICM and cheap leader concept not risking too many chips against another big stack on the FT bubble!!!
 
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That's pokerstar, you could have bought J J and returned an all-in. Now since he did not have the courage, he does not adianda cry game is game and this is poker.
 
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The moment he 5 bets and goes all in you are clearly against QQ+ maybe JJ+, and AK, That's all of his range. You are 60:40 dog against his range. Do the math yourself with the cheaps in the middle.
If I was short stack I would get it in happily but when I'm cheap leader and can dominate the play I would be more wiling toward playing AK more passive ONLY against someone can make a big dent to my stack. If they have 1/3 of my stack or less I will get it in.
With ICM I feel it's close still and sometimes you may want to let go of a situation that you are slightly ahead or has small profit to protect your stack.

Don't overthink it.

I agree, if the villian make 3-bet all in I call, but as played the range of the villian looks so strong, in ahother hand we are calling not pushign so we are not have fold equity. so it is a crying fold to me.
 
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Your 4bet doesn't fold out any better hands and doesn't get any worse hands to call (or raise). All that's left is a lot of flips. Do you really want to flip at this stage for these stack sizes? Flat call. If you hit the flop fine. If not, I say find another spot.
 
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