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I was playing a local live tournament, 8 handed on the final table; 6 places paid. I pick up QQ on the button. The blinds are 1.5k/3k/200, and UTG+1 raises to 7k. I re-raise to 17k and the chip leader shoves all in on the BB for 200k+. I have approximately 135k behind at this point. UTG+1 folds and I call with my QQ. He turns over AQ but spikes an ace on the river (bad luck me).
Villain is an aggressive player and has history of over shoving to steal. Would you have played this hand differently in my position?
 
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Remember this: You played it well and got a bad result. If his AQ was suited, you were 2-1 to win that hand. If it wasn't suited, you were even better, at 7-3 or so.

Sounds like you had a good read on the guy and made the right choice. However, when tourneys get down to the nitty gritty, you always have to ask yourself is it worth the shot right now? If you had 135k left behind, that means you had roughly 45 BBs. You had no real pressing need to take the shot. That doesn't mean it was a mistake. It just means a fold would also have been a fine play. In those situations, I am all about protecting chip stacks and trying to put other people in difficult spots.
 
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Well played but unlucky.Some time the result are not on your side.
 
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You had over 40 BBs, so I would say that you could have folded with plenty of chips to fight another day if you thought there was a legitimate chance of him having AA, KK, or AK (in other words playing from behind or racing). With that said it seems like you had a good read on the villain in this instance so you made a good call with an unfortunate bad beat. With that said, it often pays to play cautiously around in the bubble and not to risk your entire stack when there are a lot of shorter stacks around. (Earlier in the tournament I make the call 100% of the time, but on the bubble of a tournament with significant stakes I'll tend to fold)
 
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all you can do is get your money in good,and hope lady luck is in your corner and the hand holds-it seemed to me like you made a good play just got ul
 
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I was playing a local live tournament, 8 handed on the final table; 6 places paid. I pick up QQ on the button. The blinds are 1.5k/3k/200, and UTG+1 raises to 7k. I re-raise to 17k and the chip leader shoves all in on the BB for 200k+. I have approximately 135k behind at this point. UTG+1 folds and I call with my QQ. He turns over AQ but spikes an ace on the river (bad luck me).
Villain is an aggressive player and has history of over shoving to steal. Would you have played this hand differently in my position?

You can make a another decision if you don't wana risk all your stack pre-flop(your solid stack) you can easy fold and wait for another one...it's not loose to call with QQ , just bad luck...few days ago i loose AA against JJ in bubble pre-flop action(stack over 35BB).Sometimes good play don't give us good result , just bad luck.
 
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the truth is not worth the risk you have a respectable amount of blind in comparison to others I believe that if the chip leader gets you the allin while your in hand must have something premium retreat was the best option to surrender today to fight a hand later it is not bad luck since the percentages are quite close
 
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Well i would have played it different, like some1 said b4 u were not short stack it was not a "have to find a shove spot ASAP" u had chips, so when u raised and he came over the top and shoved, i would have for sure put him on at least AK worse hand AA KK best hand, it would have been painful but a tight fold here is the best play, except if hes a raising lunatic and has a whiiiiiiiide range and pushes everyone around just for the kicks, then yeah a call is fine.
 
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With your read on your opponent and knowing that he's an aggressive playing that likes to shove steal a lot, your call is fine. If he is loose-aggressive, your QQ > his raising/shoving range and you made a good call with unlucky results. I'm probably making this call against LAGs most of the time.

However, with the final table, I think the only way I would fold is there are a number of severely short stacks who are very likely to bust out soon. Players with <10BBs. I might find a way to fold and play with ~40BBs until 2 short stack players get knocked out. 40BBs is still a healthy stack to play with. But if all stacks were pretty equal, say between 40+ stacks, then I'll make the call against a LAG. Or if I had a smaller stack, say 30BBs, I make the call.
 
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