[EnderIII]

This is a good point and one I tend to struggle with late in tournaments. There seems to be a point in a tournament at which typical preflop raises are reduced from 3x to 2.5x and then very late from 2.5x to 2x. Normal raises at the table were just min-raises and the blinds in general were not defending, so it seemed unnecessary to risk more chips since minraises seemed to have so much folding equity. Should i just buck the trend and continue raising 3x the bb? If so i might be pricing myself in to call a push in some cases that i really don't want to call with 86s, but i do want to make this steal often enough.

So to answer your question, yes, i thought he might fold to a minraise, but this was based largely on the table dynamics and I probably should have taken into account his stack size as being more likely to defend, thanks for pointing that out...quite helpful.