77 UTG late in tournament. A tough spot or an easy call?
Last night at the final leg of the LPT, I had 77 under the gun, we were 6 or 7 handed (I think). The blinds are 500/1000T I have about 16k chips and look at pocket 7’s. I remember thinking a bit preflop, limping felt bad as it would encourage a multiway pot where I would need to flop a set to win the pot. I decided to raise to 2.5k. It was folded all the way to Dango who I think was on the button or in the smal blind. He shoved his stack of about 7K. So he raised an extra 4.5K or so…I look down and I have about 13.5 K remaining, if I call and lose, I have about 8K left, 8 Big Blinds or so. I am getting abit over 3-1 pot odds to call.
I put Dan on pretty tight range here. I knew him 3betting my early position raise was not a resteal attempt.
The range I put him on was A-K and AA through 10-10 and possibly A-Q…
I figured this was a coin toss alot of the time and I am a big dog the rest of times. The pot odds of almost 3.5 to 1 were very enticing, but in the end I had to factor in tournament factors. In some tournament/near bubble spots ICM considerations are quite important. Losing and getting crippled vs folding and still having a relatively healthy stack was part of the mindset. I strongfly feel that this was a marginal spot either way yet I have heard some rumblings that my play was horrible.
Any opinions?