Help me out here kids, what the hell was he thinking?
The updated chip counts are:
Jamie Gold $37,500,000
Richard Lee $16,580,000
Allen Cunningham $14,500,000
Paul Wasicka $11,500,000
Michael Binger $7,900,000
Rhett Butler $3,700,000
"122. Jamie Gold calls from the cutoff and Richard Lee raises from the small blind to $1,200,000. Gold reraises to $4,000,000 and Lee moves all in. Gold immediately calls and shows QQ. Lee turns over JJ and will need to improve. The board comes KK3610 and Richard Lee has been eliminated from the tournament in 6th place."
Now my concern is not the cards here, but about picking a better spot considering his chipstack. I was really shocked because if I was Lee, I wasn't going anywhere for at least 2 eliminations. The Jacks are strong in this case, but I feel like there was no reason to pick on the chipleader in this case, he was the only guy who could eliminate him. While it would have hurt at this point, he could have put anybody else all in (including Cunningham and still been alive). In all honesty, the money would have clouded my vision long ado, but he got re-raised here.
So if I raise from the SB I am screaming that I have a hand. If someone RE-RAISES me, what could he have? AA/KK/QQ - A/K,A/Q. He could also have 10/10 or A/J (and maaaby A/10 but Gold had folded that earlier in early position so it's doubtful) in which case he would have been dominated, but Gold showed a propensity to mix it up post flop, not pre flop. In three of those cases, Lee is toast, in two of them he's slightly better coinflipping for millions, and in two of them (or three) he's kiling. With the A/10 he would be a 3-2 favorite, right? Even there I'm still not going to f with that. 3 dominated hands, 2 race hands, and 2.5 win hands... why mix it up here when 2 others are bound to go out before you, and you are very likely to be heads up in the end. The pressure was on Cunningham to perform, not Lee so there is a fair chance that Cunningham will crack here too.
I'm not saying it was a bad play, I just don't understand the motive (and I disagreed with Clone on the A/9 call of Binger when Whiska went all in as well). I don't feel like I can look at this objectively, so I want a more experienced (or varied) opinion here.
