Bubble with A5o

[tiltaholic]

Hi-
Trying to learn SNGs. Mainly I use them to break up the limit grind. I've played about 75 total. Sorry for the simple question.

Party 20+2
Total number of players : 4
SB( $2152 )
BB( $3168 )
HERO( $1300 )
Button( $1380 )

Blinds(150/300)

Hero has A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
I push.

Is this standard, risky, foolhardy, or read-dependant?

Button was extremely short stacked and was pushing almost every hand to steal blinds. He seems to know what he's doing. SB and BB were folding their blinds to a raise since it became 5 handed and in general do not know what they are doing.

[bigredlemon]

I'd push if the rest of the table would likely fold. You definetly don't want a call here. You're in big trouble with most pairs, dominated by any better ace, and only marginally ahead of any other hand.

[El Maximo]

The blinds are huge and about to hit you. You are running out of options. Id push. You might want to take a look at some earlier hands when you were folded to in the Button or SB. Were their some hands earlier that you could have pushed with to build your stack?

[tiltaholic]

hmm.
Earlier that level...Q7s and J7s, both from the SB. (4 players). Are those pushes too?

Earlier level (100/200 blinds), K9o, K4o, or JTo- all from the button? At this level I wasn't feeling too much pressure because SB was very shortstacked and I figured he'd drop soon, but BB kept folding.

[El Maximo]

All those can be push hards for me. Its dependent on the players, chip stacks, ect. The SB hands are definitely pushes if the BB has a similiar stack size to mine. The button hands may be as well. Depends on a lot of variables.