Poker I keep busting out just before the final table!!??

IDK what my problem is!!! I do fairly decent most of the way through most tournaments and then for some reason I just fall apart at the final couple of tables and most importantly right before the final table.

Last night I was in just a little 10$ freeroll on ACR. 684 people total I believe. I obviously had my ups and downs throughout the tournament, as everyone does.. but for the most I had a pretty healthy chip stack the whole tourney. At some points being well above the average chip stack.

Getting down to the final 15 players or so I had 60,000 in chips, in 8th place. At that point in the tournament you hardly ever see a flop because the short stacks raise all in whenever they have decent cards and the bigger stacks raise well above the big blind to steal them.

At that point I guess I just get nervous or something and am not sure what to do exactly. So when I get a couple of cards to where I decide to raise 3 times the big blind at 1000/2000 to 6,000, someone raises me 12,000. I have 10/J suited and am now not sure what to do so I make the call anyway. The flop is AJ9 and the person I'm against bets 24,000. I panic and raise ALL IN hoping that he doesn't have the Ace and will fold. He calls and flips over KQ and the turn,river is 2,10. He hits a straight and I bust out in 11TH FREAKING PLACE when obviously only the top 10 are ITM.

This happens to me over and over and over. What should I do? What would you have done? Should I just hold on the decent chip stack I have and wait till other people go out? I've finished in the top 25 of those freerolls probable 15 times times and just can't get over the hump.

I know its a long post but any advice?

DaFrank


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