89 and shortstack

[eappletree]

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

MP1 (t2610)
Hero (t580)
CO (t605)
Button (t1475)
SB (t1775)
BB (t1145)
UTG (t1810)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">folded to hero</font>, hero does what???

[lastchance]

Folds, I think. 89o is definitely not good enough here, unless your opponents want to give this pot to you (meaning they fold a lot).

[eappletree]

is it ever okay to push this hand? to preserve FE, because SS needs to be aggressive to get back in the running (i think i read that in harringtons book). and i think i read on this board that if i get called by a high pocket pair that a medium drawing hand (better suited of course) is one of the favored hands to have.

[pergesu]

Having at least one overcard is way better than a medium connectors. Bottom line, running into an overpair is disastrous.

I don't push here. I'm not sure about the math behind it, but my gut tells me that pushing here kinda sucks.