$100 NLHE HU Tourney Deep Stacked: $$100 NLHE HU Tourney Deep Stacked: Did I play this hand wrong?

$100 NLHE HU Tourney Deep Stacked: $$100 NLHE HU Tourney Deep Stacked: Did I play this hand wrong?

Started tournament with 10,000 chips. It's a daily tournament and the buy in was $100. We're about 3 hours in the tourney and I'm sitting with about 37,000 chips with SB 600 BB 1200. Around the chip leader but 2 others at my table had around the same stack. We're going around the table and somebody shoves their 15,000 all in with A9 suited clubs. Many fold until the small blind wakes up with pocket 10's and just calls the 15,000. I'm in the big blind and have pocket kings. I go over the top and shove my whole stack for 37,000 to put him all in. He ends up calling... And the flop comes J-5-7 turn comes 8 and then the river comes a 9, so he hits runner runner and busts me out of the tournament. Did I do the right thing by getting it all in or should I have of just called and bet the flop strong? Or even raise his bet if he would have on the flop? Really upset about this because there was about 15 ppl left and if I would of won the hand I would of been sitting with around 80,000 chips and would of easily cashed at the final table.

Needed more info.. positions, blind levels, reads etc... however this seems more like a bad beat story possibly? If you are ever considering doing anything other than getting kings in here then I am certainly missing something.

Colehain said:

somebody shoves their 15,000 all in with xx. Many fold until the small blind just calls the 15,000. I'm in the big blind and have pocket kings. I go over the top and shove my whole stack for 37,000 to put him all in. Did I do the right thing by getting it all in or should I have of just called and bet the flop strong?

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FYP

Standard, no way I'm not shoving KK here in this spot. You are still too far away from the $$$ to even consider anything else.

It doesn't matter what the stacks are. At this stage mid tournament you have KK and you're getting shoved on. You 99% have to take it.

Sometimes you see flat calls like this and it shows lots of strength. It is really player dependent tho because other times it's exactly what you were up against. Someone who didn't quite want to fold but wasn't going to throw it all out there first. Almost seems like they compromised by calling, twice actually after you over shoved.

In this spot I wouldn't be flat calling , the shove is a great play and gets you in a position to get full value for your hand. Taking Kk into a 3 handed all-in pre can be rough and in this case it played out bad but don't let results be your deciding factor on strategy. You made the right play. Better luck and keep playing well.

https://www.cardschat.com/forum/poker-goals-challenges-wins-46/

No, this is never a fold.