Pushing ranges

[minwoo]

I've been playing MTTs for a while but I still get a little dumbfounded in situations where I'm sitting in early position w/ 44-88 with 12-14 BBs and it gets folded to me. It's really frustrating because you have enough chips to fold and wait for a better hand but not enough to raise and fold to a repush unless you're read is really good on the player who is repushing behind you. My standard has been to go ahead and reluctantly push with 44-88 in these situations. I fold 22 and 33 in early position unless I have less than 10BBs. I'd like to know for sure what the optimal play is (or at least what most of you think is the optimal play).