Down to two tables and money gos up alot with each guy getting knocked out. Should I wait more time or is this standard at this stage of the tournament?

PokerStars Game #24505804637: Tournament #136339496, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVI (15000/30000) - 2009/02/01 16:57:21 ET
Table '136339496 166' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Bobio1 (578573 in chips)
Seat 2: wellin.171 (757828 in chips)
Seat 3: J Woodley (258462 in chips)
Seat 4: flu333 (1092451 in chips)
Seat 5: Vigilius (409674 in chips)
Seat 6: germain133 (873953 in chips)
Seat 7: caseAofspade (444496 in chips)
Seat 8: ponceD (176393 in chips)
Seat 9: PPLkin (643384 in chips)
Bobio1: posts the ante 3000
wellin.171: posts the ante 3000
J Woodley: posts the ante 3000
flu333: posts the ante 3000
Vigilius: posts the ante 3000
germain133: posts the ante 3000
caseAofspade: posts the ante 3000
ponceD: posts the ante 3000
PPLkin: posts the ante 3000
PPLkin: posts small blind 15000
Bobio1: posts big blind 30000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ponceD [Jc Jh]
wellin.171: folds
J Woodley: folds
flu333: raises 90000 to 120000
Vigilius: folds
germain133: folds
caseAofspade: folds
ponceD: raises 53393 to 173393 and is all-in
PPLkin: folds
Bobio1: raises 402180 to 575573 and is all-in
flu333: calls 455573
*** FLOP *** [7s 5c Kh]
*** TURN *** [7s 5c Kh] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [7s 5c Kh Ts] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bobio1: shows [Qs Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)
flu333: shows [9h Ks] (a pair of Kings)
Bobio1 collected 804360 from side pot
ponceD: shows [Jc Jh] (a pair of Jacks)
Bobio1 collected 562179 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1366539 Main pot 562179. Side pot 804360. | Rake 0
Board [7s 5c Kh Ts Qd]
Seat 1: Bobio1 (big blind) showed [Qs Qc] and won (1366539) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: wellin.171 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: J Woodley folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: flu333 showed [9h Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 5: Vigilius folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: germain133 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: caseAofspade folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ponceD (button) showed [Jc Jh] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: PPLkin (small blind) folded before Flop

Your M is what, like 2.5? JJ is an insta-push... but you should have doubled up or busted out long before your stack got that small.

Dependent on the looseness of table shoving but considering "flu333: calls 455573" with K9 I belive my calling range for a stack that small is 77+ A9+ KJ+

Originally Posted by MJPerry

You have like 22BBs and JJ. I suck at MTTs but to me that's an easy all-in.

He doesn't have 22 BBs. He has 6, not to mention the antes.

Well I was looking at it as a return on my money thing. The difference between 18th and 15th was like 300 dollars. Just looking at it in a different way thats all. I have seen guys fold big hands to move up in the money on some occasions. Thanks for the imput. I would have loved to double up like xpods said but I played really well while card dead just to get to that point. More practice, I will win one of these in the next two months.

Originally Posted by ponceD

Well I was looking at it as a return on my money thing. The difference between 18th and 15th was like 300 dollars. Just looking at it in a different way thats all. I have seen guys fold big hands to move up in the money on some occasions. Thanks for the imput. I would have loved to double up like xpods said but I played really well while card dead just to get to that point. More practice, I will win one of these in the next two months.

With those blinds and antes, though, you could only survive at most two orbits before going out like Hawthorne's uncle... playing super-tight to get deeper into the payout structure is a strategy that has some merit, but usually only if there's someone even shorter than you. Here, even the next shortest stack can survive one more orbit than you.

On the other hand, JJ has a reasonable chance to double or even triple up here... flu's got a million chips (literally), so you can't assume that he's playing super-tight. Most of the time you're getting a coin-flip from him, and there's a reasonable chance that if another person calls or pushes behind you, they'll both be on some kind of ace, which would make JJ a massive favorite to triple up. At that point, with 20-ish BB in your stack, you're no longer in a desperate situation... THEN you can tighten way the hell up, outwait the shorties, and look for a chance to feed on them if they try to steal when you've got the goods.

I agree with Pods here, maybe you should have pushed long before you got down to 6bb. Imagine if you wouldnt have ran into those queens how pissed you would have been losing to that dudes k9. But in your situation I think its def. a shove and hope that you are atleast a 70-30 favorite. good job on the late finish though. good luck next time