Hand analysis

[RobD]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

CO (t775)
Button (t2440)
SB (t1835)
BB (t555)
UTG (t615)
Hero (t1780)

Preflop: Hero is MP with Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t615 (All-In)</font>, Hero ???

At the time, I was comfortably in 3rd place but if I call and lose I am down to 4th place. UTG had been playing pretty tight so far this game. Is it too soon to be worrying about outlasting the smaller stacks? Should I call and hope to knock another one out and all but guarantee I finish ITM?

[ericlambi]

I only call this with a specific read that the villain is a bad player. ~25% of the time you will have him dominated, ~50% of the time you will be in a coinflip, and ~25% of the time you will have him dominated. You only have T50 in the pot, and you have a good chip position. Find a better place for your chips.