$30+3 level 3 AQo

Hi all, been lurking a while and thought I would post one of my hands.
Button has been very loose, no reads on the others. Any decent raise pretty much commits me to the pot as far as I can see, so I'm left with check or push?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (8 handed) converter

UTG+1 (t615)
MP1 (t1015)
MP2 (t925)
CO (t1730)
Button (t2040)
SB (t680)
Hero (t810)
UTG (t185)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP2 calls t50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t50, SB completes, Hero?

I check and see a flop.

[tigerite]

MP2 is the only one I'm worried about. If I have a hunch that he's even slightly loose or basically just wanting to see a flop, I'm shoving this.

There are t200 chips in the pot, and that's almost a third of your stack. I want those chips, and I have a damn good hand to boot if called.

[schwza]

i push this happily. if loose button wants to play sheriff with KQ/A7, that's awesome.

[schwza]

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There are t200 chips in the pot, and that's almost a third of your stack.

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this is kind of a nitpick, but i think that's not really the right way to look at it. you have at least 60 chips of equity in the pot if you just check, so pushing and taking it down only boosts your stack by more like 140 chips.

looking back at what you wrote i realize it's not actually wrong, but screw it, i'm not fixing what i wrote.

I think you'll get looked up enough by some dumb high cards hand to make a push worth it. Yes, you'll end up in a race sometimes, but there are worse things that can happen with your short stack and some extra money in the pot. I think the time when you're way behind is going to be very rare. Puush.

[schwza]

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I think the time when you're way behind is going to be very rare.

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pushing obviously has a lot of value. the question is whether is has more value than taking the free flop.