Quote Originally Posted by Ultimate George
I dunno, I think I played it well......his hand needed improvement, he got it. I was a slight favorite in this hand originally, right?
This is not a good way to think. Sure, you're a SLIGHT favourite. But when you go allin, any edge you have in post flop play goes right out the window, there's a 47% chance you're going out of the tournement. That's pretty high. If you're a bad player, by all means, going allin and letting the cards fall is solid play. But a strong player would rarely go allin if he knew it was QQ vs AK.

It was still a good call though.

It has been said over and over that you have to make big plays if you want to get into the "real" money at the final table.
What do you mean by big plays? If you mean going allin, then no. Personally, I hate to go allin - because it means you might lose. I mean, taking a stars low buyin tourney (3 or something) that I won, I think I went allin 10 times in total (2 headsup at final table so talking about 'real money' we'll consider it as 8), even generously assuming that I was a 70/30 favourite in all those hands there's only a 3% chance that I'll win them all. Going allin isn't the way to build a stack.