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Sky Open - A move that got me busted in 18th place - Right or Wrong play...?

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_AppleMac_:
Hey guys,

Played in sky open on the weekend and was in the top 5 for most of the tournament... however when the blinds increased to 6,000 / 12,000 players on my table were starting to steal blinds... as expected. I had roughley 90,000 chips and the other big stack on my table had over 100,000. I ran into a nice hand of  :as: qh on a 5 handed table... and was sat in the small blind... the big stack raised to 50,000 (one before the button)... my move here is either to fold of go all in... I pushed all in... Firstly was my move of all in a good push...?? as I though to win the big money in The Open, I stood a far greater chance if I doubled up with nearly 180,000 chips if I won... Everyone else folded... They guy turned over a  jd js and they stood up and won... leaving me disappointed with 18th place...

My query is, was this the correct move...? Should I of realised raising to 50,000 was a strong raise or just a nice way to steal blinds as most of the other players would of folded to a raise 4x the BB...? Maybe I should of folded with the intention of laddering up the cash...? Thoughts would be appreciated...!

Cheers

_AppleMac_

Jon MW:
If he turned over his cards and showed you he had JJ, then shoving all in is still the correct move to make.

With a structure as bad as they have on Sky it could be possible to ladder up a few more places by just playing slowly - but the only way to win is to take the chances when you get them.

Swinebag:
super standard,

with these stacks and blinds and the fact the tables are 6 handed, you have to shove here. There are only 3 hands to worry about here, AA,KK and QQ and the JJ guy is raising with a lot of hands worse than that.

deanp27:
don"t even worry about it, you made the right play, i probably play worse hands in this spot too. You lost a coinflip which is pretty standard in most tournaments never mind in a crapshoot

don"t even think the open should be described as a poker tournament with the speed of play and the blind levels

_AppleMac_:
Thats good to know, was seriously kicking myself after as when you start hitting the top 10 the money ladders quite alot...!

Ive only ever played on sky poker, what other online tournament would you recommend with a longer blind structure and with a large prize pool...?

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