I recently played the WSOP Circuit (Planet Hollywood) Main Event and had this pivotal hand.

My stack is approximately $42k, the blinds are 400/800 with 100 ante 10 handed.  There are 3 limpers and I am in the big blind with A8 sooted.  I call as do not think I can push all out of the pot with a large raise and do not want to play this hand out of position.  I was recently moved to this table and have maybe played only 5 to 10 hands with this group.  It is about 6.5 hours into day 1B.  The flop comes J 10 7 with the J and 10 being hearts, my suit.  I have an over card, a nut flush draw and a gut-shot straight draw, what looks like 15 outs.  I bet 1800 into the 4200 pot.  There are 3 folds and then the SB raises to 7400.  The SB is a middle aged asian male who appears TAG like; seems like a solid player.  There is 13,400 now in the pot.  I can fold, call 5600 or raise.

Using the Pokercruncher and computing the villain’s range as very conservative; TT+,77, suited Kings, 98, other broadway cards with Js (top pair), I have about 48% equity and the pot is laying 2.4 which requires 29%.

I re-raised him allin for my last 39k and he called…with 89 for the nut straight.  This eliminated my A outs but I still have 9 flush outs and 3 straight outs to chop.  I did not improve and was out.

Upon rethinking it, I am thinking I should have folded and just found better spots as I was slowly chipping up.  Does it make sense to avoid high risk variance in a tourney even it the math seems to back the play?  Or is my math wrong and I should not have pushed.  I now think I should have folded and would have had 39k or just under 50BBs.  Maybe that is results oriented.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.