$22: Blinds bearing down

Do I push any two here and hope some fold equity gets me through or I get very luck with two free cards? Or, let the blinds (which are going up to 100/200 on the next hand) catch me and hope to catch better cards in the blinds or on the button (but with only t555 left into a 200 BB)?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (5 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t855)
MP (t1545)
Button (t2405)
SB (t2325)
BB (t870)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
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Push?

[tigerite]

I think I push because of who is in the BB. If the 2400 stack was in there intead, I'd pass.

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I think I push because of who is in the BB. If the 2400 stack was in there intead, I'd pass.

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Thanks for the reply, tigerite.

[tigerite]

No problem - I do have to say though I am not overly enamoured with the push. It's just a case of running out of time and the fact your position on this table sucks anyway. I mean if they fold to the SB next hand he's gonna push, and if you fold which you will have to quite a bit, you are now by far short stack. It's the lesser of two evils here to get it in there.

Let's say I fold and that leaves me with t655 after posting the BB. Absent reads, what range do you call a SB push with?

[tigerite]

It would depend when the blinds were going up to 100/200 and how the rest of the table were responding to pushes, but generally, quite wide. A read on him is vital though and you should definitely have one at this point. I mean, some SB's will only push with top 25% or something there, some will push any two, some with something inbetween.

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It would depend when the blinds were going up to 100/200 and how the rest of the table were responding to pushes, but generally, quite wide. A read on him is vital though and you should definitely have one at this point. I mean, some SB's will only push with top 25% or something there, some will push any two, some with something inbetween.

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The blinds were going up on the next hand (with me in the BB), which was crucial to the original post. I suck at getting reads when MTing. Have to work on that more than anything else, I think.

Thanks again for all the input. Very valuable. I'll go easy on you when I move up to the 109s. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tigerite]

Oh well with the blinds going up this hand is almost an insta push then.