Child's QQ -v- Yang's JJ

[KiwiMark]

I kinda agree that Child's fold was understandable, he didn't want to risk his tournament life on that one pair - there were a few hands that had him beat.

But I don't think the fold was good play. I think that most of the hands that beat him were unlikely. It was possible that Yang had 77, KK or AA - but 44, 22, 74, 72 or 42 were all very unlikely based on the preflop action. There were too many other hands that Yang could have had that Childs was ahead of.

I also think that if Childs didn't want to gamble then he shouldn't have called of 2.5M chips preflop and then bet out 3M chips post flop. Having invested 5.5M chips into the pot he then folded to a bet that was not ten times the pot or anything like that - it was actually less than a pot sized bet (giving him better than 2 to one on his money for a call.