Was playing a $0.55 6 max hyper-turbo on PokerStars. Don't have exact numbers sorry. Little bit of background on the table - Stacks ranging from about 12BBs to 20BBs
Blinds: 500/1000 250 Ante
Hero - UTG (~13BBs) - AJo
Villain - BU (~18BBs) - KQo
Pre Flop-
Hero opens to 3000
Folds round to the Villain who thinks for about 10 seconds before jamming for about 18,000
Folds back round to and the Hero calls
Flop comes down:
4K5 (rainbow)
Turn: 9
River: J
Villain wins pot of around 28000
Hero is eliminated in 116th place (107 places cash)
Just wondering about whether or not AJo is a call in this spot. I wasn't really thinking about ICM or anything like that, my main thoughts at the time were about what puts me in the best position to win this tournament and I came to the conclusion that winning a pot of 27k puts me closer to that goal than folding and waiting for a better hand.
Any advice or thoughts would be really helpful thanks!