Best way to lost most/win least?

[yecul]

Party $9 Satellite into Saturday's $200k.

~22 of 270 remain, top 11 get passes, 2-3 more get a couple bucks. Blinds 500/1000. I'm in BB with about 9500 left after posting. There were probably 4-6 shorties ranging from 2.5-7k but at least 15 had more than me. Large(r) stack in EMP limps. All other fold. I check with JTo.

Flop comes J32 rainbow. Pot is 2500.

I pushed, he called with aces, turned the set for good measure and I'm out.

Boo hoo, I lost... Anyway, I made the play because there was good reason to think he had nothing. I'd seen many short stacks limping and then folding to raises. Folding out of the BB with 1.5bb remaining. Big stacks limping UTG with QJo and calling all-ins. Etc. Bad read obviously...

Can I afford to make the standard 2.5k bet? Was this an appropriate push? I think it was ok, but am not sure. Very green on sats in general as maybe this was my 5-6th played and only second to get deep in. Are there some good posts I should be reviewing for sat play?

[adanthar]

Sometimes (not often), because this is a sat, you can put the guy on a monster when he limps for the first time in 15 orbits with 10 million BB. If I limped there as the chip leader, for example, you'd have an easy check/fold [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

99% of the time against the typical Party monkey, push blah sorry about loss blah.