Question about a live hand..

[jdeane]

12k = 8BB (going to 4BB in 2 min)

Scenario 1:
You limp for 1500, CO raises, you push...

Scenario 2: (what happened)
You raise to 6000, CO pushes all in, you call...

Scenario 3:
you push all-in for 12000, CO...?

Since you are about to become pretty desperately short stacked, it looks like all 3 of those scenarios end up with all your chips in the middle in a race w/ AT.

I am not sure I could limp/fold pre-flop here ever, unless I wanted to sit tight and wait for the shorties to bust out, in order to move up the pay-scale.

[Rottersod]

The blinds were a lot more than "getting steep". They were already at endgame stage where every hand played had to be push/fold based on your description of chip stacks. Picking up the blinds would have put you in a much better position vs the short stacks, especially as the blinds were going up next hand and you would be UTG+1.

[SinOrSwim]

I found a sample hand in Harrington on Hold Em that was very similar to this. Q's vs. A/10. The guy with Q's put about 1/2 his stack in and Harrington said the A/10 guy should have folded because in this situation the 1/2 stack raise was more powerful than just shoving.

Either way was not wrong is what it came down to.

Thanks for the replies again. It is appreciated.