Call here in the money with big chip lead?

[rjb03]

POKERSTARS GAME #739300504: TOURNAMENT #2883711, HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL VII (100/200) - 2004/10/02 - 23:29:38 (ET)
Table '2883711 1' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: rickjbr (10650 in chips)
Seat 4: kiosk02 (1085 in chips)
Seat 7: Enigma2176 (1765 in chips)
rickjbr: posts the ante 25
kiosk02: posts the ante 25
Enigma2176: posts the ante 25
Enigma2176: posts small blind 100
rickjbr: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to rickjbr [Ah 4h]
kiosk02: raises 860 to 1060 and is all-in
Enigma2176: raises 680 to 1740 and is all-in
rickjbr: calls 1540

[SmileyEH]

Easy fold...remember the gap concept.

-SmileyEH

[rjb03]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (3 handed)

Hero (t10650)
Button (t1085)
SB (t1765)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="CC3333">Button raises to t1060</font>, <font color="CC3333">SB raises to t1740</font>, Hero calls t1540.

Flop: (t4365) 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>

Turn: (t4365) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>

River: (t4365) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>

Final Pot: t4365

Results in white below: <font color="white">
Hero has Ah 4h (three of a kind, fours).
Button has 2s 2d (two pair, fours and twos).
SB has 7h 7s (two pair, sevens and fours).
Outcome: Hero wins t4365. </font>

The gap concept was on my mind here, but I went against my instinct to fold hoping I wasn't dominated, which was likely. Just posting the results as a follow up, not meant to bring about results oriented thinking as I obviously caught a miracle flop. I figured I could have easily outplayed either of them heads up but it was worth the gamble of ~1600 chips to just try to kill two birds with one stone; they were playing somewhat loosely anyhow, as would be expected from a short stack. Most likely I'll be folding here in this situation in the future to fold my way into good heads up position.

[SmileyEH]

You should be thinking in terms of equity...not "kill two birds with one stone, or "wait utnil I can outplay them HU".

A4s is definetely not good often enough for calling to be correct, simple as that.

-SmileyEH

[dogsballs]

[ QUOTE ]
I figured I could have easily outplayed either of them heads up but it was worth the gamble of ~1600 chips to just try to kill two birds with one stone

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Everything about your follow up post tells you folding was the right move. The result, your comment above...just donating 1600 more chips to your opp isn't too smart. And that's basically what you'll be doing in this spot the great majority of the time.