Did I make the right calls?

Last Saturday I was playing in a tournament in a casino close to town 13 of the 80 players remaining I was sitting big blind with AK first to act pushes all in everyone folds and I have him covered by double his stack I call he shows 77 flop came 3 Q A so I was looking good turn k and then the 7 the very next hand AK again same guy pushes all in I'm on tilt I call he turns over his A 10 I hit the A on the flop he hits runner runner 10's I was out. So is it a bad idea to call an all in with AK pre flop? I don't think I ever will again after that experience I will be tarrified.

No, it is not a bad idea to call with AK pre flop, the call was correct in both situations you just got very unlucky, on another day if you win either of those you have won a few easy chips and put yourself in a better situation to go on and run deep in the tournament

Ducky7 said:

No, it is not a bad idea to call with AK pre flop, the call was correct in both situations you just got very unlucky, on another day if you win either of those you have won a few easy chips and put yourself in a better situation to go on and run deep in the tournament

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Thanks for the input I was just so disgusted back to back hands both beats were on the river and I'm almost positive I was chip leader at the time.

No problem, in the 1st hand i mean like 96% of the time you are probably gna knock him out (with 77) on the river but obviously there is that 4% ha and then you probably would have been chipleader. Focus on the positives at least you did not get your money in bad on both occasions and you played well to get into this spot before hand

That kind of moves is one that I like to do most certainly would have done the same as you, it's a good move! ... then decide the fate that will fall the currency side but you played your cards right I think

See this is really the hardest thing in a tournament, you can't quit unlike playing online. But, tournament is really fun and exciting.

You had a read on the first hand, you knew he was semi-weak, you got into a coin flip situation and just caught a bad beat. Second hand you knew the table thought you were on tilt, and you eneded up as a huge favorite pre-flop. You can't get discouraged, especially with a monster like AK. Just a couple of bad beats...

WHAT!?! I thought bad beats only happened online ;P. Honestly in my book you played perfectly.

I thought the hardest thing was reading the OP. It had no punctuation in it, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure how you understood it.

stg1969 said:

I thought the hardest thing was reading the OP. It had no punctuation in it, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure how you understood it.

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I'm sorry, I was on my mobile phone at the time. But I guess every forum has some grammar nazis.

Thank you everyone for the help.

In the first hand he probably makes the same move with AQ or AJ.
Correct play both times, just bad luck.
Fact is when you play big tournaments you have to win coin flips. Some times you do, sometimes you dont, goodluck

Rarely have I seen the instant retribution that follows a bad beat like you were looking for. First the bad beat, then you were going for payback? Cards, odds, all of it out the window. You get hit with a bad beat, that is bad luck. Still have chips after the bad beat? Look to someone else at the table to play against before going back to the source of your tilt.