Baring in mind this is about my 4th MTT EVER!

Anyway, so I enter a $5 MTT for fun. 350 entrants, there are about 11 players left, blinds are 750/1500 and I have a stack of 33K (no HH, sorry).

So, we're short handed, about to go to final table. 2 folds and I raise to 6K with AKo, a 4K stack calls all in and then the button who has been overaggressive sticks it all in, the blinds fold and I give it no thought and call. He has 10-10 and busts me. He normally called raises with position and a crap hand to take it down when people checked to him on the flop.

My point is, who would fold here? I would go from being 3rd in chips to about 5/6th with the blinds going up in about 2 minutes, there's a couple of very short stacks left. I should have given it SOME thought, he really could have raised all in with A9 in this spot. My thinking was that if I doubled up I would be in excellent shape to win as the prize pool was mainly in the top five and I was aiming for first. Plus the 12K extra in the pot was a sweetener for a 50/50 shot.

I used to play a ton of STT's but I have virtually no MTT experience, calling all in in this spot annoys me somewhat, how strong is the argument for folding, I'm obviously only asking because I lost it!

Molina

I would make that play all day. If he is has been overly aggressive as you claim, he could easily be pushing with AJ, AQ which you have dominated.....you can tippy toe into the final table you need ot have chips and this was a perfect opportunity to get some.