Re: KQs on button. Short stacked late in tourny.
Well, the scenario you present is possible. But it's also possible that he calls your smaller raise with A7 (which he may have folded if you pushed) and the flop comes A-9-2.
It obviously can work both ways. All you can really do is make EV+ decisions (and pushing here clearly is) and hope things go your way.
In this case, yu got the best possible result -- a bad call from a hand you were dominating. Beyond that, it's out of your control and losing to a runner-runner flush is freaking gut-wrenching. But you made the correct play and you got a delicious call.
One other note... you're likely gonna have to do many more preflop pushes to climb back out of the short-stacked hole you're in. If you start making bizarrely small raises when you have a strong hand and then push with worse hands, the table will (ok, may) pick up on that. So you'll be more likely to be called light in future situations where you have to push preflop (which is not what you want).
Matt
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