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Very untrue. Once you hold meaningfully more than 10BB, open-pushing is virtually never correct...

With 15 BB, AJ is a MP raise, planning to fold to a push from a non-maniac who has you covered. 33 is a MP fold if there are no limpers.

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If I have 15K in chips and the blinds are 1000/500 with a 125 ante, I will open-push with quite a few hands in MP. I know there's been some sensativity towards the "M" word around here, but I think that this is a great example of where M is a much more important consideration than BB. Once the ante's come into play, the numbers change dramatically. In my illustration, your M is a bit over 5 at a full table (10 players). This means that in 5 orbits you're blinded out - less if the blinds go up between now and then. This paints a *much* more desperate picture than BB does. In this situation you're getting desperate with 15BB. Making a move to increase your stack by almost 20% is very attractive here.