$Freeroll NLHE MTT: short stacked with 10Js on the BB, how to play?

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160 players left, 54 are ITM, blinds 300/600. Hero has 14BB and is short stacked in this table. Notes on Villain: has a comfortable stack (70BB) and is playing aggressive (mainly against short stacks), is taking calculated risks.

Hero has :10s4: :js4: on the BB. UTG, UTG+1, UTG+2 fold, Villain as MP raises about 2BB, everybody else folds. Hero calls.
I am not sure this was a right call, your thoughts?

Flop: :8d4: :qs4: :qd4:
Hero checks, Villain checks

Turn:
:qc4:
Hero checks, Villain bets 1.2BB. Hero makes the call.
(Seen the pot and outs to make a full house or straight and I put Villain here on an any Ax)

River:
:10d4:
Hero makes his full house and shoves (10BB).

How would you have played the hand?
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You are OOP, but facing a very small raise with a decent hand. The pre-flop call I think could be considered all right, but I would generally avoid playing OOP with a small stack and ESPECIALLY against an aggressive big stack. Villain can shove almost any hand with little risk and you cannot call anything but the stone cold nuts, that you will almost never have.

Anyway, I would have folded on the turn, if villain bets there, albeit small for him, he most likely has 8x, Ax, any PP or a FD with overcards, all of which beat you, and you can't afford to throw away 1.5BB when you are so short hoping for your 4 outs on the river (discounting flush outs). Also a bad spot for shoving yourself, as he almost always has you beat here.
 
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I would rather see us shove pre than play OOP vs an aggressive player here on a 14BB stack. It's important in today's game to think that shove fold poker begins sooner than the traditional 10BB threshold that everyone applies. 15BB or less should be shove fold for us for the most part and this becomes especially important when players have open/fold to 3 bet ranges. This however, is a freeroll and the deciding factor in what's best here is whether or not your opponent folds to 3 bets at a high frequency. If you think he's calling nearly his entire open range then flatting is fine but if you think he folds sometimes then I like shipping it.
 
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The play preflop is ok , I may have 3bet shove that hand against an aggressive late position opener. I like the defend here against a middle position open but I would fold the small turn delayed cbet because you are losing from everything!

If you were deeper and the turn card was a spade I would double think a call here.Generally don't chase too often your draws beyond the turn card!
 
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