Ok here we go – the details.  Blinds are at 150/300 in the later rounds of a 90 person sit ‘n go with knock out bounties.  I am on the button with mid to low chip stack.  I wake up with pocket nines, perfect hand to raise it up and pick up some chips.  I hope to take it down before the flop as most people that would call a raise  I would be at best a coin flip against and I am not a fan of those odds.  The big blind get a couple of callers when two spots to my right the guy raises to 1550 chips!!!  I already am not a big fan of my nines as there is a big raise in from of me so my options are:  to call letting any ten, Jack, Queen, King or Ace is a scare card on the flop; go all in over the top to which I would most likely be at best in a coin flip situation or fold my pocket nines mucking one of the best hands I have seen in a while.  This is the guy immediately to my left goes all in over top of the original raiser making it almost 2000 chips to call and will be playing with middle pocket pair against at least 2 players.  Since I figured I was at best a coin flip before this move I figure I am now up against an over pair as well so I elect to throw my nines in the muck and live to fight another round on what I assume would be a for sure loss.  With all this action everyone folds around to the original raiser who calls the extra 400 chips.  What do these douchebags turn over?????  Pocket sixes and pocket sevens!!!!!!  At this point I start to cry because I would be a huge favorite to win this hand and more than double up my chips stack.  As I wipe the tears from my eyes I see the flop comes 4, 4, 2 rainbow.  To this I start taking a mallet to my groin and cursing my stupidity as the worst poker player.  I am just about to bring in help to start kicking as the area has numbed to the mallet the turn brings a six.  A SIX!!!!!  Oh sweet hallelujah a six.  Maybe I am not a moron . . . maybe I do know how to play this game, I dodged the bad beat!!!  Let’s see what the river brings.  A SEVEN!!!!  I would have been destroyed by both players.  I am a genius!!!  Finally I was able to avoid the bad beat by . . . folding the best hand??  Looking back on this hand, against these two donkeys, even though I would have been destroyed in the end, folding was obviously not the right play, as regardless of the outcome, getting all of your money into the pot with the best hand should always be the goal of any poker player.  However, that being said I still believe, looking at the action ahead of me in the hand, I should have folded against good players.  I don’t think good players would have made the moves these morons did in the same situation.  Although what do I know, I am usually the donkey in the hand.  Sometimes folding is the right play and helps avoid a few bad beats.  Any thoughts?