Talk to me about pot odds calls when deep, for significant % of stack.

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I just got back from Vegas, where I played a few MTTs. I feel like I played as well as I could, but I ran into 2 nearly identical spots that I didn't have the answer for, and I am hoping the MTT regulars can help me understand what to do, given the situation.

Here is one of the hands:

Binion's $150(?) tournament with 489 players. 80 people left, and money starts at 50:

Full table, blinds 1000/2000 with a 200 ante.

So, 5000 in pot to start.

UTG shoves 9000. Pot is now 14,000.

Folded to me in BB, where I find 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

7k to call, 14k in the pot, and I have a dismal 21k in my stack.

Do I call here getting the right(?) price, even if it means calling off a third of my stack? Winning would be great, but losing puts me in a bad spot with my stack.

I felt like I was definitely as good as or better than everyone at the table, so I opted to fold and make up for it by shoving into the nit in the BB.

A nearly identical situation came up again deep in a tournament at the Orleans, except in that hand, it was 25% of my stack with 74o. UTG shoves... I tank and fold.

Is passing up on spots like these a mistake?