How I busted in a 2+2 SNG yesterday

[B Dids]

Few on us on IRC played a 10/1, this has the hand that knocked me out- your thoughts?

I read MP1 for an underpair, so I figured it was a coinflip. Felt like I committed myself with a less than fantastic hand when some good players had position on me.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

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

BB (t1100)
UTG (t465)
UTG+1 (t1085)
<font color="C00000">MP1 (t740)</font>
<font color="C00000">Hero (t650)</font>
CO (t1760)
Button (t1075)
SB (t1125)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t100, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t250</font>, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds, <font color="CC3333">MP1 raises to t740 (All-In)</font>, Hero calls t400 (All-In).

Flop: (t1540) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 4/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t1540) 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t1540) 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t1540

Results in white below: <font color="white">
MP1 shows 7h 7c (straight, eight high).
Hero shows Ah Jh (one pair, fours).
Outcome: MP1 wins t1540. </font>

[Sam T.]

Push pre-flop. This is one of the hands in which, as Sklansky puts it, "a reraise makes you want to throw-up." You can't bet less than t250, and that bet is such a big chunk of your stack that it prevents you from folding to a re-raise. This leaves you with the choice of a fold or a push.

[Jason Strasser]

I agree with sam, with less than 10x BB if you are going to play the hand, especially with a limper, you push.