to push or wait

[NoflopsHomer]

I can't comment on this thread, I pushed two rounds earlier and got knocked out.

  you werent there

or if you was who was doing the gukpt update

Proberly.

I was just making the point that I think you should've pushed earlier than at this point.

[Ironside]

i had pushed and picked up the blinds a few times i had pushed and got a double up not long before

but the steals i was getting in were only maintaing my stack

i wasnt getting called for a double up and i wasnt calling off my comp with 2 unconnecting unsuited low cards

[thetank]

good thread

[MANTIS01]

Agreed, good discussion.

Lots of talk of calculations...but to even embark upon a discussion about the maths is to focus on the cards you have been dealt. As ever tournament play is about situations and the situation here is a bleak one. As such you do not have the choice to weigh up the pros and cons of how your cards will fair in the long run against a perceived calling range. The luxury of that type of mentality has long since passed. 

The best thing to do here is cup your cards..fake a look..and push..and push with the visible relief that you still have enough juice in the tank to ask the field a semi-serious question.

I really don't think any player other than the bb is going to "call" this bet. So while players in earlier seats may have a better ace than you they still wont call for fear of hanging themselves out to dry to a later raise. They will have to find a raising hand to get involved and that isn't a frequent occurence. We beat the bb's random hand right now and anyway we shouldn't fear a call...the situation tells us a double up is a desperate requirement.

When you get called simply look down and find pocket aces in the hole.