WSOP satellite

[mutiger91]

The local Harrah's was running a "Winner's Circle" promotion last month where every tournament had an additional $5 rake for all players and top 3 finishers in all tournaments would get a chance to play for a WSOP seat. 2nd was $2K and the falloff from there was pretty dramatic.

Format was pretty much a donkament. Blinds started at 25/50 with 1500 chips, but moved up every 15 minutes and many of the increases were doubles. The only viable strategy I have found is to play aggressive early and then slow down after the first break when many people are instantly short-stacked and try to pick off weak all-ins.

I made it past the first break at ~4K chips, but couldn't make much of a move from there. I found myself with only 3 tables left at ~5K chips (which would have been the average with 30 players left, there were a couple more than that gone, so I was modestly below average). Blinds were 300/600. I have just been moved to a new table and have only seen about 4 hands.

Early position player limps. SB completes and I look down at AKs. I haven't seen anything from either player yet. Both players have me covered, but neither has more than ~8K-9K. Do I raise to 2000 or do I push here? (400-800 blinds are 5-10 min away.