FT of Party $35,000 G - What would you do with AJs?

[The_Mush]

My first final table in a large buy-in MTT. My image thus far has been tight, with none of my open pushes called. What would you do in this situation? Thanks in advance for the feedback.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t4000 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP1 (t36574)
MP2 (t123628)
MP3 (t17536)
CO (t56434)
Hero (t32938)
SB (t23383)
BB (t26123)
UTG (t57590)
UTG+1 (t39632)
UTG+2 (t103162)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
3 folds, MP1 raises to t8000</font>, 3 folds[/i]</font>.

Hero?

[Exitonly]

what about villains image?

i think i'm pushing here, but that very well might suck.

[The_Mush]

I think he had been raising his fair share of pots, but not open pushing. I'm not really sure though.

I like to call here, i wana know if the smaller stacks wana play here, if they are they will probably push. if the fold i got position after the flop. if you push here and the blinds fold your giving him 1.6:1 odds to call which are good odds if he has a decent raising hand.
I wana see the flop here before i commit to the pot.
if he checks after the flop i probe bet 1/3, regardless of what comes. if you hit something then play accordingly.

[henrikrh]

Less than 10 bb, I'd push without a read.

[The_Mush]

If I call, the pot is almost going to be as big as my stack. If rest of table folds, and flop misses me completely, what do I do then, say, if he bets the min into me? I really thought the only options were push or fold with my stack size and I just didn't think I had very much fold equity. Any thoughts?

[The_Mush]

I thought long and hard before folding, which may have been too weak tight. I just thought I could find a better spot where I had more fold equity.

[schwza]

you definitely have FE here. if MP1 is stealing w junk, there's no way he's calling at a FT. he'll be calling 25k to win a total of 72k, not even 2:1.

it's pretty close though. if the raiser were in later position or i had AQo, i'd push. i like the fold here.

Thats a tough one. I'd like to be the one acting first on the flop if I were to take one. The pot would be 22k and you would have 24k so the stop and go would be my move. This way I would give him a chance to fold which he would not be smart to do to a PF all in since he'd be getting 2-1 (46K in pot and he'd have to call 24k) HOWEVER you are last to act on the flop. I might just fold this here. My reasoning is as follows: You've got 32K with blinds 2k-4k. ANd I like that you have 2 smaller stacks to your left. I would fold here and hope to pick up some blinds with pushes in the next few hands. You might even move up a few spots in the process.

[ZeroPointMachine]

Looks like an attempt to steal cheaply from the two shortstack blinds. Without any other read I'm pushing here with a whole lot less than AJs.