$11: Basic (?) SNG-question.

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Push. You can't call and try and play it after the flop. He won't fold...and you'll get in as a 53/47 favorite.

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important point in malachii's post. you can push it, but NOT because you expect to be a 53/47 favorite all the time.

even against some fairly innocent looking hands like 78o, you can be a small dog. the point is that the dead money is larger in size (relative to your stacks) than your opponents thin edge. after you push, note that your opponent would be right to call with any two as well. in other words, there is so much money in the pot that neither player would be correct to fold after that initial raise. which is a good reason to just shove instead of tossing in a 3BB raise that late in the tourney.