$11 KQ Push or Standard Raise

Seat 1: Fallan (3,220)
Seat 4: Hero (1,305)
Seat 5: poker_prophetz (2,145)
Seat 8: airae (3,065)
Seat 9: ecued (3,765)
poker_prophetz posts the small blind of 50
airae posts the big blind of 100
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Qs Ks]
ecued folds
Fallan folds
Hero raises to 300
poker_prophetz folds
airae calls 200

The plan was to push any flop. Would I be better off just pushing preflop

[GtrHtr]

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[bluefeet]

Interesting post. The ol' - damn this looks pretty, hand.

With 13bb's, the plan to 'push any flop' is not necessary. Nor is raising usually. Open pushing is marginal at best (+.4 vs "77+,AT+" ranges). Raising isn't horrible. Considering the minimal chip advantage in pushing, you have a decent hand to see a flop with. Assuming this guy will let us attempt to c-bet (which we won't if we whiff), raising even a touch less isn't bad...likely giving us four cards on the flop before we have to consider moving in or off.

But as always, with your stack size, retaining every ounce of FE is paramount. Folding this PF is horrible either.