[SumZero]

I agree with you that exit_only and OP's fold is to weak on hand 1.

With an M of ~9 I don't like putting in 15-20% of my chips in a case where I am likely to fold a BB push and that screams to the BB to push if the SB folds. But I think the weakest part of my MTT game is the range M 9-16 as I feel I know how to play with deeper stacks (say M>17, aka real poker) and I know how to play with shorter stacks (M<9, aka push/fold) but those middle stacks that are nearly short stacks I find hard to play. Scarr's visualization shows that at many sites this range happens to the average stack around 100 to 140 hands into the tournament (and fortuantely I play at UB which came out on the 140 range), but by then there are a number of big and small stacks so often you are playing push/fold due to the small stacks.