Think this should have been an automatic push?

[soda]

I'm all in with any decent holding here. There is tremendous pressure for the SB to fold in this situation and wait on the BB. You described the SB as tight, which means I would probably push with any 2. 1200 in blinds is huge if you can grab 2 or 3 hands in a row, you're golden.

Even though I'd push with any two, were I the small blind and you pushed here, I only see myself calling with AA, KK and maybe QQ. Everything else is hitting the muck in my current game. I think the gap theory in this particular situation becomes very important.

Every time I make the kind of raise you did in this situation (and I know I do this too), I chide myself because I believe the clearly superior play here is to just push. AK is not that strong preflop and you do not want to see a flop or have to call an over the top raise from SB.

These are just my opinions after about a week of one table SNGs.

soda