Help me out: Black AA face up?

[davidross]

This is a personal preference situation. If AK or another big pair is out there behind you calling or pushing makes no difference, the money will be going in pre-flop 3 or 4 way. I would want to know how much you liked your chances against this bunch, and what the other chip stacks were. My gut is to push here and hope I get 1 more caller. But if the pay structure is such that winning is really the only thing you are conscerned with I would lean towards calling and bringing more customers. You obviously have a better chance of moving up a couple of places by getting heads up here because you can't be eliminated, but you probably won't see another hand like this before the end of the tournament and your chances of tripling or quadrupling are better if you just call. Of course you're chances of going out 9th or 8th go up as well.