Push? Call? Fold?

[aj]

$22 MTT on Party. Less than 75 players remaining from an intial field of 541. I recently took a bad beat that took me down to about 8600 chips. The average was about 22,000 at this point. Blinds and antes are 1200/600/50. This hand comes up.

NL Texas Hold'em Trny:24505194 Level:9 Blinds-Antes(600/1200-50) - Sunday, June 04, 16:41:21 ET 2006
Table Regular(717194) Table #2 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Alycyn ( $8686 )
Seat 2: pnsnkr ( $13585 )
Seat 5: dungdiep222 ( $57721 )
Seat 6: bonds444life ( $31021 )
Seat 8: kgr8793 ( $24464 )
Seat 9: kittycat3434 ( $20629 )
Seat 3: EnglishJim ( $15493 )
Seat 7: shift78 ( $9520 )
Seat 4: yaboy10 ( $6585 )
Trny:24505194 Level:9
Blinds-Antes(600/1200-50)
Alycyn posts ante [50].
pnsnkr posts ante [50].
EnglishJim posts ante [50].
yaboy10 posts ante [50].
dungdiep222 posts ante [50].
bonds444life posts ante [50].
shift78 posts ante [50].
kgr8793 posts ante [50].
kittycat3434 posts ante [50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Alycyn [ Th Tc ]
yaboy10 folds.
dungdiep222 folds.
bonds444life raises [2853] Big Stack was stealing a lot, figured small pair or two paint cards
shift78 is all-In. Short stack - figured him for two over cards
kgr8793 folds.
kittycat3434 folds.
Alycyn ??????

[poormanbilly]

I doubt you're ahead here. If you are, you'll have a lot of overcards to dodge. I probably push and hope to hit a T for the triple up, but that's not really the safe or good play.

FWIW: Every time I've gone deep in a MTT, I've folded TT preflop in a similar situtation. Probably just coincidence though. Could I be any more schizo?

[mewsiclovr]

Easy push, IMO. You need the chips.

[biggle10]

I'm leaning towards push. You only have 8BB. Hope your opponents both have AK. Original raiser may not even call.

[ugignadl]

Yep. If you had 11+ BB it's a fold, but with 8 BB push. What happenned?

[aj]

Alycyn is all-In.
pnsnkr folds.
EnglishJim folds.
bonds444life calls [6617].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 2h, 5h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
bonds444life shows [ 7c, 7h ] a pair of sevens.
shift78 shows [ Ah, Qs ] a pair of queens.
Alycyn shows [ Th, Tc ] a pair of tens.
shift78 wins 1668 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of queens.
shift78 wins 28158 chips from the main pot with a pair of queens.
Player Alycyn finished in 73 place

Got pretty much the best I could hope for: a lower pair and and two over cards.

Why is it always the river?

[ugignadl]

Good move. Nice hand.