Act I at Foxwoods

[topspin]

A friend was at Foxwoods recently to play an Act I and had the following hand come up, which we were talking about this morning. This is probably a pretty routine decision for you 1TT folks, so I'm curious what people's thoughts are.

Blinds are 50/100, going up to 100/200 in 5 minutes. Hero is Button with T700.

Chipcount:
UTG: 750
UTG+1: 2500
MP1: 750
MP2: 300
MP3: 2000
CO: 1600
Hero (Button): 700
SB: 900
BB: 500

Hero is dealt: J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Preflop: 1 fold, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO calls, Hero ...

Pot is T550 when it gets to Hero. Chip leaders UTG+1 and MP3 have been playing almost every pot. The rest of the table has been generally respectful of raises.

Obviously Hero puts in a raise of some sort here, but the question is how much? Personally, I'd rather not be playing JJ into a big multi-way field since the pot is already sizeable, although having the button helps a bit. Normally I'm thinking a raise of T400-500 ought to thin the field, except that it probably leaves me too shortstacked on the flop to get away from my hand. How's pushing here instead? Other lines I haven't thought of?

[brad the fish]

I don't see any valid option other then to push. A raise of 400-500 is going to leave you with almost no chips - so your going to be pot commited anyway. Also, Your going to get called anyway - so might as well put your money in while your probably ahead. I would be interested to see what MP2 (with only 300 chips total) found worth limping with when the bb's at 200.

[Apathy]

Pushing is your only option here.