This was the first hand of the FT. Villain is a reg. about 13k up top and the payjumps are significant at this point. Especially for my roll ATM. There was some weaker players at this table and no sickoes. Is this a fold? I would imagine it is a call if we wanna make the most money in the long run, as the money is in top three. But taking spots like this i feel is much higher variance. i rather take a lower variance route at this point although i will not be making as much as if i go for it here. I rather for example have 5 4k scores than a 12, 2, and 8k score if that makes sense. Or am i being an idiot? 🙂

No Limit Hold’em Tournament T7,000/T14,000
Buy-in: $50+$5 USD Hold’em No Limit
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9 players
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Stacks:
UTG – UTG (T543,172)
UTG+1 – UTG+1 (T471,381)
UTG+2 – UTG+2 (T590,167)
MP – MP (T278,271)
MP2 – MP2 (T739,471)
CO – CO (T838,150)
BTN – BTN (T215,917)
SB – Hero (T365,816)
BB – BB (T580,655)

Preflop: (T36,750, 9 players) Hero is SB with 8♦ 8♠
6 folds, BTN raises to T214,167 (all-in), 2 folds, Uncalled bet of T200,167 returned to BTN

Total Pot: T50,750

BTN wins T50,750