Mid-pair hand late tournament play

G'day all,

Playing a $100 freeroll freezeout on Titan. Final two tables, 11 players remaining. Blinds are 2,000/4,000. Hero's table is:

UTG - 42,000 (tight)

UTG + 1 - 84,000 (tight)

Button/Villan - 102,000 (agressive) in the last ten hands had pushed all-in at small stacks with K7o and A8o

SB/Hero - 14,000 has 8 /images/graemlins/spade.gif8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif (had show down two nut hands at this table in the last hour and successfully stolen from the button; not other pots won)

BB - 28,000 (very tight)

UTG and UTG+1 fold. Button/Villan calls. Hero goes all-in. BB folds. Villan calls.

Result in white:

<font color="white"> Hero shows 8 of spades and an 8 of diamonds
Villan shows A of diamonds and a 9 of diamonds

Villan's hand catches A of clubs to win. </font>

Was this a good move, or should I have gone another round of the table hoping to catch a better hand to shove at or hoping to condense to the final table hoping to get more time for a better shove hand??

Thanks in advance,

leeroy5000

Yeah, this was fine, blinds are too big to wait and i'd be happy to get my money in with 88

[CieloAzor]

I'm sure you missed many good pushing opportunities before this. You waited too long, but at least you finally put it in here. The fact that you aren't sure this was the right play speaks volumes.