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My 2 cents:

Since he has everyone in the hand covered, his stack size isn't important. Given the stack sizes of his opponents, any reasonable raise (say to 500) pot commits them anyway, so he might as well push. Any opponent with a made hand will think of calling a push as equivalent to calling a smaller raise, but any draw might get away easy if the turn is a card Hero can't bet but that happens not to make the draws hand.

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I don't get why you'd need to bet 500 into this pot. If you make it 500, the original bettor is getting 800:400 to call. You could easily make this 700:300 or even 650:250 which is still worse than 3:1. I guess if they have a straight flush draw they'd be getting good odds to call. And I don't think you have to think in terms of being pot committed if you put in 350 out of your 1275 stack. It sucks, but you can get away from it and still have your starting stack at level 1.