NL Freeroll situation

[Jugador]

This was a FTP freeroll, first place was something like $80, nothing to write home about.

I watched this hand, as a friend was playing, and told him it was an easy call when CO+1 moved all in. He called and CO+1 turned over Qx of diamonds for the nuts. Turn/River where blanks and my friend was out relatively early, failing to fill up.

He said he would have folded there, and I told him I still felt that calling was the best move as the likelihood of his opponent on 2 diamonds with the A and K of diamonds already on bored where very slim.

I play mostly cash games, so perhaps my train of thought is different. I'm still curious how others would handle this situation in a real $ tournament, with a nice payoff possibly up for grabs.

[Ghazban]

Given that the guy has over 5000 in chips already, I'd expect he is pretty loose and has gotten lucky a few times. I wouldn't put this sort of player past calling T120 (1/50th of his stack) with Qx of diamonds so, if he hits, he can inflate his stack even further (which is exactly what happened). I would be surprised if his luck held out the whole tourney and he made the money, though. 99 times out of 100, a guy with that many chips early in a freeroll got them them by pushing where a more experienced player wouldn't.