Or at least that's what the guy with Aces called me.

Here's the situation. Final table of a fast paced tournament. I had just come out of nowhere in the past 20 minutes to gain the chip lead. I was down to 1100 with 150/300 blinds with 14 left. Top 10 got paid. I had pocket Aces 3x in less than 3 orbits and doubled up each time. Then pocket Jacks turned into a set. So now I'm sitting at the final table with just under 40,000 with the blinds 300/600 (or maybe 250/500 - don't exactly remember). There are 9 players left. Player in EP pushes for about 4,400. I am behind with [6c]. Next closest stack to me has about 27,000. What do you do?

I figured I had almost 10x his stack and I could lose the hands and still be the chip leader by about 7-8,000. For the chance to knock another player out I called. Player with an even shorter stack went all-in behind me. Original raiser had AA, late shortie had KK. Flop came 865, turn 6 and I knocked them both out with trip 6's. Afterward, AA called me "a f*ckin idiot!". Was I?

PS - I thought I played incredible heads-up poker, waited, and trapped my opponent with trip 9's to win the whole thing. I wish I had a hand history. Unfortunately is was just a Freeroll on VIP Poker that I got the password to and I only cashed $150. But anytime you win an MTT, it makes you feel pretty good.

fold it...its really not even a close decision, its a pretty good sized raise in comparison to the blinds, i wouldnt be calling this if i was last to act. the fact that u called with people left to act behind you makes it a pretty horrible call in my opinion, u are ahead of nothing and theres a damn good chance ur dominated...u shouldnt be using ur big stack to justify bad calls, u should just be pushing a lot more and putting the decisions on the other players for their tournament lives.

Likely to be dominate? Obviously you've seen the result, but do you really think so? He didn't have to push immediately, but he was in AI mode if he wanted to play a hand so he could reasonbly push with something like AT-AK or KQ.

I may have mistated too. I was not directly behind, but 2 off the button. Larger stacks had already folded. I took the 2 other largest stacks into considerations as well.

You do bring up a good point though and if there was a push behind me by a larger stack for a substantial amount I would have been able to fold I thought with minimal damage. I'm still not saying I'm sure I made the right move, but I'm not sure it's as likely that I'm dominated as you say. I just felt at the time that the opportunity to take another player out at the final table with not too much risk was worth the shot.

But, like you say, I may have gotten carried away because I was running hot as hell at the time.

yeah, you were.

I may consider calling if I were in the bb, there were antes and no one else could act, but not in EP.

You don't need to go out of your way to bust people, that is how CLs go out early.

Harrington on "10 to 1" says call, when in position.
Out of position, not 10-1, easy fold.

Nice win, by the way.