folding kings preflop

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folding kings preflop

ok so I'm in a tournament and I pick up kings on the button with 10 people left. a guy in early position shoves all in for 85 percent of my stack everyone folds and its up to me to call him or fold. At this point in the tournament I am 3rd in chip and if you make the final table you cash. is it ever safe to fold there and wait til I make the final table and then push the pace or should I be ok with being in that spot. the end result was that
i called and he ends up having king queen and he hits a straight. and i end up bubbling the final table. he easily could have had an ace or aces. is it ever ok to fold kings there or should i have been happy to see him shove into me when i had kings that late in the tournament? the tournament was a 10 dollar buy in with 700 people and it was 7 hours into the tournament and 1st place was 2500.

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cmart1123 8 years, 11 months ago

Sounds like your playing on Bovada. Anyways no you should never be folding KK there. I understand your looking at it from the stand point of well if I find a way to fold I final table the tourney but the question you have to ask yourself is are you trying to win it all for $2,500 or just trying to make the final table. You should always be trying to finish top 3 because that's where all the money is and to do that you can never fold KK just because your on the final table bubble. You can't be results oriented you must be decision oriented and you made the right decision. You win that hand you most likely almost certainly get top 3. If somehow he has AA there then so be it because you will be wrong more times than right and really he should never have AA there if he is pushing for that much because he was clearly trying to use fold equity in that spot. It sucks you lost but you even still had 15% of your stack left which is pretty huge considering you have equity left after a beat like that. If you use your small stack right and hold in a couple spots you could of came back too on top of everything else so it would be extremely bad to fold KK there or any time for that matter unless your 100% sure someone has AA which might only happen once in your life so don't fold.

Priski 8 years, 11 months ago

Pretty easy call imo.

Am I reading this correctly in that only the top 9 of a field of 700 get paid? The buyin and 1st place prize sound like one of the $10K guaranteed on Bovada.

aceofspade 8 years, 11 months ago

Its an easy call yes,

But for me its hard to call here too, i guess im just a coward and just want to win 3rd if i was in the OPs shoes.

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