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Below is what happened, did i make the right play, would you have done something different?£10 rebuy tournament at local casino. 82 enterants, prize fund of £1900, split from £700 for 1st to £40 for 9th.14 left, six handed table, im in the BB. Blinds are 1000/2000.Play is, FOLD, FOLD, Raise 4000 (28,000 stack) Button raises to 10,000 (40,000 his stack), SB folds, 8000 to me(i have 33,000).I haveAsQs, my first thought was fold as i should final table, then i thought this pot could win me the tourney, i felt the first raiser was weak and would fold, the second raiser was probably on tens or jacks. So i call.Initial raiser pushes all in, next player calls, so i have to call cus of the massive pot.Flop QJ7, i push all in and get the expected call.Original raiser shows 66, other guy shows AK, im well ahead.Turn is a 6 and 66 wins the 70 odd k, i win the loose change.I know the end is unlucky, but any thoughts would be appreciated.

It's the only way you could have played it, just unlucky I'm afraid !

That's why poker is mostly lucky, i would have done the same thing as youI would have called with the A Q, and seeing the flop i would've thought i had itWhen seeing the opponents cards i would have felt great, like nothing could go wrong, it's in the bag, and loosing by a stroke of luck would be horrible, better luck next time and don't let one loss get you down

For future reference, try not to focus on what monies you added to the pot preflop or postflop. This will cause you to stay in. Instead, when your instincts tell you that you are beat, just fold. A wise poker player is one who folds when he/she realizes that he/she is beat. Additionally, It was a wise move to call seeing that indeed you hit a pair. However, you should have thought whether someone may have hit a three of a kind on the flop since there was some heavy raising pre flop.

yes you did. when at the final table you are shooting for 1st place. THE turn killed you but you were way ahead and that is poker. Sometimes it is better to fold when the big stacks are battling but I would do exactly what you did. Did you finish in the money?

fold preflop...there is no real reason to play this hand against a raise and a re-raise, and as you should see you made a pretty bad play before the flop and got very lucky to outflop two better hands in this instance, and then got very unlucky to have a 6 spike against youthe bottom line is that A-Q is a trouble hand, and when faced with a raise and a re-raise you will very rarely have the best of it

I agree with the previous poster. Fold the hand pre-flop. With a raise and re-raise on the table, someone likely has AK or a big pair. So going into the hand you're likely way behind (which you were). Remember in tournaments you make money by surviving, not building a big stack making risky plays.If a couple players had limped in, you would raise with that hand, and if one player raises in front of you then you call.Once you were in the pot, you played it right though. Just bad luck.

I don't know that I'd recommend folding with that hand, but I would NEVER consider calling. You're playing this hand because you're playing to win the tourney. Sitting around and grinding out 8th or 7th place gets you nothing; the payout structure favors taking risks to win it all. You want to win a big pot. Calling with AQ in this spot virtually guarantees you'll see the flop three-handed, which is bad for that hand. You want to be heads-up against a smaller pair with a slight advantage, at worst. By just calling you know you'll have two opponents AND you invite at least one of them to apply pressure by pushing in. By going all-in yourself you put the pressure on them to make a decision.Also worth keeping in mind that moreso than you got unlucky, you got LUCKY on the flop. With your suited AQ you have less than a 25% chance to win against 66 and AK and that's assuming none of their cards are spades. Against just the pair you're almost even odds.

There are 2 ways to play this hand based on what you know about your opponents. Since you didn't get involved with how the other 2 were playing (loose-tight) I'll assume that you were not paying attention. FATAL MISTAKE!Play 1 is to fold, after a raise and re-raise if the one of your opponents have been playing tight, you can not possibly think your AQ is any good.Play 2 is to push pre-flop. If your opponents have been playing loose you push to try to get them to fold.Bottom line here is that pre-flop you had the worst hand and lost with it. That will usually happen.