[Mr_J]

I'm not saying pushing is -ev, I'm just strongly in favour of raising here. If you have to get away from the pot you still have a good stack to work with, but the right flop sees you gain quite a few chips and maybe even double up. This then allows you to get into more postflop situations with bigstack, to give you a better chance to build an even larger stack and dominate the table.

This is all in my own opinion of course, so when I say pushing is terrible, I just mean I think that it is far from the best option.