[soko]

You're not considering the blinds. In HOH v2 he explains early in tbe book how critical your stacks are in relation to the blinds.

If you are both short stacked in comparison to the blinds, then almost any face card is worth pushing because you don't have enough chips to even attempt any postflop play.

If you have stacks that greater than 8 or 9 times the blinds that gives you some room to work with and of course you would try to beat sombody you have an edge over, but even here there is such a great level of luck involved that it's going to be pretty close to push or fold postflop.

When your blinds are around 20 times the big blind, then post flop play becomes critical, you are in a comfortable spot and should play real poker. You can't simply push all in before the flop every time becaues your opponent has enough chips to fold until he has a hand worth calling.

If you really feel outskilled and don't want to play real poker with big stacks heads up, why not just cut a deal?