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[QUOTE="RammerJammer, post: 339114, member: 2090"]
I'm in the $10 NLHE tourney on UB.  $3,000 GTD and 1st pays over $500.  Top 30 places pay off.  I have gone through an extended card drought and the blinds/antes have whittled my stack down to 2500 chips.  600/300 blinds with a 75 ante.  I'm sitting 31st out of 33, one slot out of the money.

I catch KJ offsuit in the small blind.  Two limpers, no raises.  I raise to a modest 2xBB (1200), hoping I'll at least chase the BB, and maybe one of the limpers.  Big blind doesn't buy it and raises enough to put me all-in.  The button calls on the other side of me.

I'm now down to less than one more betting round's worth of chips and I'm one spot out of the money.  I consider the size of the pot (large enough to vault me back into the top 15) and the amount of time I've already invested in the tournament (2-1/2+ hours) and whether walking away empty-handed is worth playing the KJ.

Agonizing decision, but I fold.  BB turns over AQ and button turns over A8.  Board fills up KJ844.  Button wins with 8's & 4's.  My KJ was solid gold. That's the closest I get to any more cards and eventually get anted out with rags.  Collect my entry plus $3 and change.

My head tells me I made the "smart" play, but my poker gut tells me I'm a big girly-man for mucking that hand.  How would you guys have played it here?
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