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[QUOTE="Egon Towst, post: 446733, member: 11768"]
Bear in mind that pot odds are less important in a tourney than in a ring game.
 
In a ring game, it is legitimate to put chips into a pot where you are underdog if you have the odds. In the long run, this is a winning play [I]and you can reload if it goes against you.[/I]
 
In a tourney, you can`t necessarily afford to lose chips on a long shot, even though it may be mathematically correct, because you can`t easily replace those chips and it may fatally weaken you and jeopardise a position you may have spent an hour or two building.
 
In tourneys, you must weigh the strategic situation as well as the tactical.
 
Don`t worry if you get busted out of a tourney by some fool who makes a bad play and gets lucky.  Those things happen and they really p**s you off at the time.  But luck can`t be helped, and anyway it evens out.
 
What you want to worry about is when you get busted because you made a less than optimal play.  You can`t fix luck, but you can fix that.
 
And, with that in mind, in your second example above, you might think about whether it was right to go all-in when you did.  The board is paired, so you should consider that there could be a full house out there.  
 
I`m not saying you were flat wrong, but it`s worth thinking about.  Was there another way you could have played it that would have protected you, without giving up the pot too easily ?
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