thathoser;147893 wroteGranted, I got a phone call i could not avoid taking while this hand took place so was not thinking.
3 left, 2 paid. blinds 200/400, . BB is big stack with 4500+ I'm SB with 3000 or so and button is small with 1500, playing tight as hell.
I get QQ, and raise to 1000, big stack calls. flop 2j5 2 diamonds
he best 400 and i shove. he calls with J5 and i bubble.
obviously my brain wasn't working, it was probably an easy shove, but is there a time when folding this is the play? try to work on the small stack to get ITM rather than risking all your chips at the chip leader with QQ?
Unless the reaching the money is very important to you (which is usually only in the case where you are in a tourney that is much, much bigger than you normally play), then play normally except for adjustments to others who are playing differently because of the bubble. And there are two types of those people, ones who tighten up and ones who realize that and steal much lighter. So this is a time for steals and resteals.
We all began as results-oriented players and many of us still are. We get our money in with the best of it and get drawn out on. Bubbling is no different. In your example there is no reason to figure in the bubble situation so the normal play is to shove. If anything, big stack might figure you for a steal and call with a lesser hand.
Instead of looking at missing the money, look at the outcome that would happen most of the time. You would have 6000 and be against two stacks of 1500. If the play that would happen most of the time is favourable, then that's the play you should go for.
And really, your play of raising 1000 isn't that bad. But you said he bet 400. Did you check the flop? That wasn't so good. If you are not going to shove preflop here then the next best move is a stop and go. So go ahead and raise and then shove any flop.