Small pocket pairs

[ojwood]

Yesterday in the full tilt pokerowned private tourny, i was dealt pocket 4's at the time table chip leader but admittedly not by much.

I was big blind, the dude under the gun was short stacked but pushes all in, it folds round to 1 off the button and only 300 chips behind me also declare all-in, the button also takes the chips and goes all-in.

weve got 3 people all-in, the small blind folds and down to me to act, I went to fold... then paused.... if 3 people are going all-in with a slightly loose game being played im guess theyve got premium cards or all with aces and going for broke. With that in mind 3 aces have been dealt making my 4's look quite juicy but then any kicker card to come would throw me out.

I folded with the three players confirming my thoughts A-8 UTG, A-K 1 off the button and A-Q on the button

None of them made a hit and A-K takes his total to just over 6K, obvisously hind sight i know i would of won........ but with my thoughts of them all having aces would it of been right to call with a small pair like 4's and going for broke? or did i play it correctly?

any answers will be great thanks