I was playing in a 1500+ person tournament the other day and ran into a situation that I wanted some feedback on. I had been the chip leader for a decent portion of the tournament but by the time it got down to the final 60-70 i was below average. I had actually just doubled up the hand before the hand in quesion which left me with about $15,000 chips.
Blinds are at 500/1000 antes are 75 i think, not to sure. UTG moves all in for about $9,000. At this point in the tournament the short stacks are dominating the table. There have been all ins on most hands for the past 15 minutes. So its folded around to me on the button and I'm looking at 9 :diamond: 9 :spade: . I feel like a talked myself into a call, but my first reaction was to throw it away.
I consider myself a pretty good short stack player, and I think I have a good mentality when it comes to playing a short stack. When short stacked I believe that its way more important to consider the circumstances rather than the strength of your hand. I would much rather push with K5 with my stack than call with a made hand like two nines in this spot. This is knowledge that I have accrued as I've been short on chips a lot of times and krept my way up the ladder. I think the correct decision, regardless of result, is to lay the hand down. Instead, I called and lost a race and was on life support and out the door 3 hands later.
It's not an earth shattering hand that had me on tilt the rest of the day, but more just something that's been in my head and I'm just looking to see what others would have done in that spot.
