bad call?

PokerStars Game #7786495265: Tournament #39376566, $0.50+$0.00 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2007/01/05 - 22:13:20 (ET)
Table '39376566 110' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: kdezian (14798 in chips)
Seat 2: swampslogger (7960 in chips)
Seat 3: mjccoop (5595 in chips)
Seat 4: OSU-JLR (8339 in chips)
Seat 5: Sotally Tobr (10185 in chips)
Seat 6: VanRay82 (10715 in chips)
Seat 7: rw11687 (7230 in chips)
Seat 8: Jamiland (8510 in chips)
Seat 9: gothenuts2 (22515 in chips) is sitting out
kdezian: posts the ante 50
swampslogger: posts the ante 50
mjccoop: posts the ante 50
OSU-JLR: posts the ante 50
Sotally Tobr: posts the ante 50
VanRay82: posts the ante 50
rw11687: posts the ante 50
Jamiland: posts the ante 50
gothenuts2: posts the ante 50
mjccoop: posts small blind 300
OSU-JLR: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to rw11687 [Kc Ah]
Sotally Tobr: folds
VanRay82: calls 600
rw11687: raises 1800 to 2400
Jamiland: folds
gothenuts2: folds
kdezian: folds
swampslogger: folds
mjccoop: raises 3145 to 5545 and is all-in
OSU-JLR: folds
VanRay82: folds
rw11687: calls 3145
*** FLOP *** [Qh 9h 8c]
*** TURN *** [Qh 9h 8c] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 9h 8c 3c] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mjccoop: shows [Jh Jd] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
rw11687: shows [Kc Ah] (a pair of Queens)
mjccoop collected 12740 from pot
rw11687 said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12740 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 9h 8c 3c Qd]
Seat 1: kdezian folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: swampslogger (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: mjccoop (small blind) showed [Jh Jd] and won (12740) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 4: OSU-JLR (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Sotally Tobr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: VanRay82 folded before Flop
Seat 7: rw11687 showed [Kc Ah] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: Jamiland folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: gothenuts2 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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It's what, 2.5-1 for you to call? That's a perfectly fine call, even if you are only getting 2-1 (against this hand, overall I think about 2.5-1 is what you need to make up for the times you will be dominated).

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pretty much pot committed - particularly at that level where they could have anything. I think you need more than pot odds in this type of situation though but with the decent chances that he had ax, kq or a pair less than aa (kk you have ok odds) you are clearly priced in.

The hand when I had kxs (last night) was more of a borderline

Even if you fold you are leaving yourself a chip stack that is less than 10 times the big blind and that is never an enviable position to be in. Even though big slick is a drawing hand, you are almost guaranteed to be in a coin flip situation unless your opponent is holding pocket kings or aces. In this hand, the jacks are ahead 56.65% to 42.95%. Combine that with the pot odds you were getting, I can't blame you for making the call.

With an M of 4.7 you have to push here as your first action. If you're going to call an all-in it's often best to go all-in yourself first.

You'd still have lost the hand but IMO and that of many others, pushing preflop would have been the right move here.

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