Semi blind steal whilst short stackd ?

[Sulphate1]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed) converter

UTG (t11725)
UTG+1 (t15705)
MP1 (t2550)
Hero (t6245)
CO (t14259)
Button (t27846)
SB (t5125)
BB (t11720)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero ?</font>,

CO and blinds are tightish solid players, the bigstack on the button is seeing a lot of flops playing passively postflop and getting lucky.

Is this a good spot to stick in a raise seeing as almost any raise would almost leave you pot commited and the likelyhood the button will call ?

If-so just a standard 3-4BB raise or a push ?

Wasn't too sure what to do with this hand.

[Sulphate1]

Does no one have any thoughts on this ? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[betgo]

With ante on Poker Stars, I would push this. It is kind of borderline.

I don't see a lot of point in a standard raise, except maybe to represent strength. You might be able to limp in this situation though. However, this is a hand you kind of more want to push with than see a flop with.

[nath]

Yeah, with antes, pot should be 1300 if my math / knowledge of PS levels is right. So your M is &lt; 5 = push and this hand is plenty good enough.
FWIW in the ante rounds I open raise in this spot almost all of the time, whatever my stack is.