Push OK with 88 in SNG satellite?

[Shorty35]

Anyone hate this push? Note that this was a satellite; so only first mattered. Also relevant was that the blinds were just about to be bumped up to 100/200 and the table was very tight.

My alternative was call and play for set value; but given how tight the table was playing and where the blinds were, I figured I would need to gamble soon if I didnt hit the set. And I figured that i had fold equity, plus a likely coin flip if called. Seemed like a good spot.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

<font color="#C00000">Hero (t815)</font>
SB (t690)
BB (t2605)
<font color="#C00000">UTG (t910)</font>
MP1 (t1520)
MP2 (t1115)
CO (t345)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 8/images/graemlins/club.gif, 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls t100, MP1 calls t100, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero raises all-in[t815] , <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG calls t715, MP1 folds.

Flop: (t1065) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Turn: (t1065) K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

River: (t1065) 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t1065

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
UTG has Tc As (straight, ace high).
Hero has 8c 8s (two pair, eights and sevens).
Outcome: UTG wins t1065. </font>

[Shorty35]

bump. routine or too horrible for words?

[Seadood228]

I'd say pretty routine.

You'd think 99+ would raise in quite often, so it doesn't look like your dominated by anyone in the hand so far. You have some folding equity, although I think it's less given that this is a satellite and people are more apt to gamble. But with your short chip stack you should be welcoming a call from 2 overs for a chance to double up and get back into this thing.

[EarlCat]

With only 8BB, I'd say its time to step up the agression. 88 preflop is only a dog to a higher pocket pair and you've still got a big enough stack that a big raise or an all-in will be respected (unlike that guy with 300 chips). I'd just write this one off as a bad beat.

[pooh74]

No 2 ways about it...this is auto push given all the circumstances.

[whynot?]

good push - horrible call that got very lucky

[xorbie]

A10 is indeed a pretty bad call, unless they think you will be pushing with A9 or under here. It seems A10 is at best a coinflip (against a mid pp) or a slight favorite (against something like KQ/KJs) but is a huge dog to AJ+.