Once again, not sure I made the right play on the bubble...

Party Poker 3 table SnG (30 players) - at the final table, down to 6. Top 5 make the money, it was only 5+1, but still. All the stacks are relatively similar, withing about 1000 chips. Blinds 150/300. I have 4200. Get dealt KK in the small blind. Raise to 1000. Big blind comes over the top of me for 2500. I reraise all in, and he shows the aces. BAM! I bust out 6th and miss the money.

Thinking back on it, I'm not sure what the right play was. My thinking at the time was, that he thought I was making a play on his blind or something. I also think it may have been stupid to risk my entire stack on the bubble like that. However, KK is the second best possible hand, so to lay that down 6 handed in the final table of a tournament is nearly impossible. I cant see any pro (maybe Hellmuth, just for camera time) laying down KK, especially in this situation. It may have been dumb to not protect my stack, but if I double up Im sitting pretty. Thoughts? Feelings?

I'd make the same play 8 days a week.

I'm nowhere near as skilled as most of the people on this site, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but...I would have done exactly what you did in that situation. No way I wouldn't have pushed all in. Finishing in the money is fine, but if I get a golden opportunity like that, I'm taking it.

thats what I figured, it just was a horrible way to get knocked out, especially after 1.5 hours and being just one spot out of the money.

oh well I guess thats poker...

I was playing in a 2300 entrant MTT $3 buyin the other week and made it to the final table and then down to a final 6. I was dealt AA and preflop raised. I was currently in thrid. The 1st place stack reraised me to where I'd be all-in and I called. He flips his cards over, A7s. I can see someone making that call if I held a small percentage of his stack, but I had about 65% of his stack. Flop comes, 3 goddammned clubs, I lose. That is just horrible luck.

Not sure how this really helps you, but I had to vent this to someone. I guess the moral is that bad beats and bad luck happens to us all.

You played it right..

The exact same thing happend to me in a 50k tourney last week.

1st wins $12,500
50th place wins $300


We both have pretty big stacks, and if I double up now I'm a contender for first and shouldn't have ANY problems making the final table.

He raises I re-raise all-in.
I have KK , he has AA.. I'm out in 52nd place., and he proceeds to waste my chips and go out in like 45th place