10+1 Q9s short-stack... right time to push?

[CCx]

Villain has moved all-in on quite a few hands now, doubled up once with AQ, showed down AK 1 other time, rest uncalled. Blinds move to 75/150 next hand. I guess I'm obligated to call the all-in here? Better to just push pre-flop instead of just limping? My pre-flop limp looks terrible in hindsight...

NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:
Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Tuesday, October 18, 13:21:08 EDT 2005
Table Table 66614 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 3: PanFridNemo ( $1370 )
Seat 4: Villain ( $1550 )
Seat 5: chunky_soup ( $1170 )
Seat 1: DTMB531 ( $875 )
Seat 7: Hero ( $665 )
Seat 9: starich777 ( $1535 )
Seat 10: johancr ( $655 )
Seat 2: rich7757 ( $180 )
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Qs 9s ]
chunky_soup calls [100].
Hero calls [100].
starich777 folds.
johancr folds.
DTMB531 calls [100].
rich7757 folds.
PanFridNemo calls [50].
Villain is all-In [1450]
chunky_soup folds.
Hero...?

[schwza]

i would fold usually. if you know that utg will limp bad hands and will fold them to a push, then you could push. i think limping is pretty bad. once you limp and he pushes, you're getting almost 2:1, but i still think it's a fold (but close).

a common rule you hear get thrown around is that if you have under 10x bb's, you should push or fold unless you have some very good reason not to. that rule certainly applies here.

[CCx]

thanks, schwza - like i said in hindsight i agree with you i could have done without the limp and just pushed or folded

i ended up calling, he had AQ, i caught a 9 and that was that - better play next time tho, promise [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]