i am new here to the forum yet what info i have gotten here has helped tremendously. for example i played in a satellite sng tonight and catch qj suited i limp in being in last postion after the flop. three people involved in hand flop comes j 10 8 first player checks and second checks i put in min bet of 200 first player folds second player comes over the top with a 400 raise. now a couple of days ago i would have called his bet and most likely come back over the top of him. but after implementing the advice here into my strategy and taking all things in context i decide to fold. which i show my cards and say i believe you he was kind enough to show his pocket kk. the other players all gave grief for laying that hand down. but it didnt matter because it was the right play i would have been getting pretty good pot odds but the deciding factor to fold came from postion in tourney. i was getting stuff like your supposed to go broke on that hand and i cant believe you didnt call that with top pair and straight draw and blah blah blah. i did really well by adding the advice taken from here and implementing it into my game so for that i say THANK YOU TO ALL.

good job man. it never feels bad to stay around a tournament longer! : D

If your getting short (or your opponent is too short to pay you off if you hit), that's the play to make (as your chipstack gets smaller, the value of draws goes way down and the value of pairs goes way up).

If you're not short, I'd have called one more min bet. You had 9 outs to a better hand (trips, top 2, straight) and need about 5:1 to draw. You're getting 3:1 on your money, and can make up the rest with a good bet when you hit.

But it's never a mistake to survive this hand with a good sized stack, so good choice of selective aggression (decided this wasn't the time).