FTP $10 - Approaching to the final table

[ettorek]

Last 10 players, I've the shortest stack and looking for a move: the last 5 hands people are just stealing the blinds and where I've got no playable hand.
I don't like to call, but needed to find a spot: standard?

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t1000/t2000
(Ante: t250)
5 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: t28896
CO: t51764
Button: t10820
Hero: t4340
BB: t45380

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises all-in t10570</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero calls all-in t3090</font>, BB folds.
Uncalled bets: t6480 returned to Button.

[JesseB_11]

Try not to ever get that short. You should be pushing when you get around 10 bbs. As played, very easy call this short

[deepsquat]

agreed. pretty easy call here too imo

[JammyDodga]

Payouts?

I'm thinking this could be a spot where $EV diverges from cEV...

[ettorek]

Payouts:
10 $46
9 $58
8 $70
...
2nd $395
1st $657

I really played too tight in the last 10 hands and this was really a mistake: but when I found myself so short the only evaluation is about calling a raise from the button or waiting a couple of hands for a better spot?

[sapsuckah]

Five handed, you surely had opportunities in the last couple orbits to open-push, either from UTG or CO. Like someone said above, you should never let yourself get anywhere near this short unless you lose a big all-in for most of your chips.