Harrington On Hold Em Hand 4-1

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I'm reading HOH for the third time. Hand 4-1, page 144-145 bothers me every time.

You've got 76o in the big blind (third in chips with eight players left in a satellite). An aggressive player who has you outchipped raises to 2x BB, and all fold around to you. This looks like a fold to me. Harrington recommends calling, saying that you are getting 3.5 to 1 on your call (and that you are only a bigger dog than that to an overpair). First of all, an overpair is certainly in the list of likely hands for your opponents. Secondly, it doesn't seem fair to consider yourself to be getting showdown odds against your opponent. He is going to bet you off of some pots that you would have otherwise won if you're call preflop put you all-in. You are risking a big loss on hands where you hit middle pair and have to figure out how to play. If you are just going to muck middle pair to avoid postflop trouble, then you can't consider yourself to be only a 2-1 dog against AK as part of your calculation. The relatively small pot (currently 105 chips, when you started the hand with over 1700) seems to be a further argument against calling. Am I just missing something here?

Thanks,
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