Bubble: to survive or to build a stack?

[ChuckNorris]

I knew that I have a chance of outlasting the shortest stack here, but felt like folding this would be "playing for the third" in a wrong way. After pushing I felt kind of bad though, since a call is pretty certainly coming, and KJ isn't THAT much ahead any two, and even if I double up, I don't have a great chance for first.. But still a chance, and an OK chance for second. So what do you think?

Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: Mulperi ( $1076 )
Seat 4: Rollin_Green ( $660 )
Seat 5: DocAlan ( $4712 )
Seat 6: StacksNC ( $3552 )
Blinds(200/400)

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mulperi [ Kc Jd ]
StacksNC folds.
Mulperi is all-In [1076]

[jgunnip]

I think this is a very easy push. You still have a good chance at the top two spots through one double up. You can't really wait for the small stack to bust here because he is to your left and by the time the blinds come around to knock him out, your pretty much crippled if he doubles. I thin kyou have too much tournament equity here to pass this up. However if the small stack was to your right and you had fewer chips, like 600 or so then I think you can maybe pass it up.

The hand I just played would be a good example of when to try and squeeze into the money, if you were in DONK's seat.


20+2
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 7: hero ( $220 )
Seat 1: DONK ( $300 )
Seat 4: button ( $4425 )
Seat 6: SB ( $3055 )
Trny:14721532 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 2h 9s ]
DONK is all-In [300]
button folds.
SB calls [225].
hero folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, 6c, 7h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
DONK shows [ Jh, Qh ] high card king.
SB shows [ Ah, 8c ] a pair of eights.

[tigerite]

Heh! I had almost exactly the same happen at a $33, button pushed with ~350, I had 310 in the SB, huge stack in BB, I had trash 3-9 soooted or something, so obviously folded, BB called with A3o, knocked out 350 with KQo. I laughed