With AK I feel good pushing, with AQ...?

[ilya]

***** Hand History for Game 2483452856 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:14573693 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Friday, August 05, 18:32:57 EDT 2005
Table Table 13991 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Org45EB ( $1245 )
Seat 3: mgswanton ( $540 )
Seat 6: UCSlugs13 ( $620 )
Seat 7: jose4554 ( $3960 )
Seat 9: StneColdCall ( $685 )
Seat 10: TraumaDoc ( $950 )
Trny:14573693 Level:3
Blinds(25/50)
There is no Small Blind in this hand as the Big Blind of the previous hand left the table.
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to StneColdCall [ Ac Qh ]
jose4554 calls [50].
StneColdCall raises [250].
TraumaDoc folds.
Org45EB folds.
mgswanton folds.
UCSlugs13 folds.
jose4554 calls [200].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 2c, 8c ]
jose4554 bets [300].

[lastchance]

Push, I guess.

To be honest, there's t125 in preflop. That's worth fighting for, especially if you're going to make a raise to t250.

I probably push preflop, though it is close...

[ilya]

I raised to 250 with the intention of pushing any flop/calling any push preflop. Pushing any flop if checked to, anyway.

Just a bad situation, and not misplayed at all. You're down to 435 chips and the blinds are about to hit you. Will they go up? That might make a small difference. You can get through them if they don't and come out with 360 chips and then pick a hand and push and hope to double or triple up.

I don't know, push, fold, this is a gut instinct call. Hard to figure out what he might have here, but given his stack he may have been limping in with a so-so drawing hand and then figured he'd call you pre-flop to get heads up and try to push you out on the flop. I think I push.

[jgunnip]

i like pushing preflop with t125 already in. My feeling is raising to 250 leaves the big stack with no option but you call you postflop regardless. Since if he check to you and you push he's getting almost 3 to 1 on a call with plenty of chips in front of him.