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Yeah, this is what I was thinking too - afterwards.
I've been in a dry spell lately, only cashing in 1 of my last 35 MTTs (with many Bad Beats along the way), so I'm sure that affected my decision. If I was running a little better lately, I think this would have been an easy push for me. (On a side note - I've been crushing the cash games lately, so that has helped to offset my recent downside variance in MTTs and has helped to improve my play with deeper stacks.)
Results: I folded. Later on I lost 1/2 my stack with 99 to TT when I pushed with 10 BBs, then I busted out 39th when my AJ lost to 77 with 5BBs.
Maybe I lost an opportunity by not pushing here, but psychologically I think it was important for me to cash here - hopefully adding to + side of my MTT ledger will improvement my decisions and attitudes going forward. (I know this is not 'correct' thinking, but running bad can warp the mind - even though we fight it.) OTOH, if I pushed and won the blinds there, or pushed and won a coin-flip, then I probably would have had enough chips to get away from the hands that doomed me later on and maybe had a run at the FT. As much as I try to always make rational, logical decisions - I think I dropped the ball on this one from a long-term EV standpoint; which, as mentioned, should have been my focus.
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