Shooting Star 55 in small blind

[jhodges]

I'm playing in the $1580 Sunday No-limit version of the Shooting Star event in San Jose. 120 players left. 8-handed. Hon Lee table chip leader with appox 30 thousand bets his standard $800 in position 1, folded to a quiet reserved type who calls. I decide to call in the small blind with two black fives and hope for a set. Blinds are 100 and 200. Big blind folds. I have 10,800 and late position guy has 10,000. Flop comes:
Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
With the 25 antes there must be 2800 in the pot. I bet 2000 like a man with top pair. Hon Lee folds and resersed guy fumbles with his chips and goes all in.
Now what? I called and he turned over two jacks. Should I have gotten away from this hand? Set over set is not so likely plus with 2 queens he probably would have raised.
Hmmm. Vince Lepore in seat 5 commented "I thought you had King ten of spades or something like that". So he probably read reserved guy correctly for jacks should I have?

Thanks in advance
JH

[Greg (FossilMan)]

There is no problem going broke with set over set. It's a lot more likely he's got QJ, and is willing to go with it, than it is that he's got the higher set. Even taking into account that it's a hand he's willing to go all-in with, AQ is more likely than a higher set. You can't fold a set on the flop unless you know the opponent VERY well, and it's rare even then.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

[jhodges]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply...I half convinced myself that these 10,000 chip tournaments had to handle situations like this completely different.
You are one of the best posters here...
JH