[bluefeet]

...considered that. but with a pot equal to 1/3 our stack...taking 6.5bb's to the flop, i don't know how cute we get. best/most likely case - we check, he stabs another 200 at it - we push.

for that reward, we risk an Ace flop...STILL holding t1300 chips, facing a much larger bet perhaps.

1- i don't want to entertain ANY notion of letting this go post-flop
2- i don't want to give him 3-cards, that might a) make his hand, or b) give him a ton of outs to make the correct push call for the turn+river

500 chips here is precisely what we need, to allow us to assert ourself against the now - THREE - shorter stacks.