Quote Originally Posted by r8ed
On a single table tourny, if you have QQ and the largest stack and somebody goes all-in with 1/2 to 3/4 or your stack, would you call? This happened to me two nights ago. There were still 8 people left. I folded. I wasn't happy but didn't want to bascially get knocked out on that hand. Plus I had just finished out of the money twice in a row. He did go allin 1 or 2 times after that hand, but not before. Good laydown? I ended up 2nd.
My opinion, if you finished ITM then you did the right thing. Chances are he had AK or a lower pair. Why go AI preflop with KK? He didn't want callers probably, but you never know. Maybe he had AA and figured a fish would call him. The goal is to get ITM, not go toe to toe on a hunch.

I just laid down AK with 4 players left and I was a fairly short stack. Guy one off the button raises 3xbb, I call, BB goes AI and the first guy calls. I could have gone AI with them. But I had 125 chips left in my stack. I folded like a cheap suit. The first guy had QQ against AQ (the BB). The queens hold up and the BB gets knocked out. I go from -33 for the buy in to +27 for getting ITM in 3rd place. From there I was pretty much dead with only 125 chips, but the point remains. If you can fold and fight back to get ITM, then that's what you do.

Good laydown.