I hesitated on this one and wasn't sure what to do. UTG was a kosher player, so his UTG raise (though min) probably meant he had a pretty good hand. With the blinds at 75/150 things are starting to get pretty desperate for me, so I wondered if this would have been a good opportunity for me to use what fold equity I had left and see if I could possibly chase them both off the hand. This is a $1.20 single table on Stars.

With respect to my image, I had been playing pretty kosher but suffered a bad beat fairly recently (TT losing to AK). I was able to build my stack back up to about 1200 with a few good pushes, the last one 3 hands ago.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB (t1670)
UTG (t3715)
MP (t3720)
CO (t2025)
Hero (t1065)
SB (t1305)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, A.
UTG raises to t300, MP calls t300, 1 fold, Hero???

Would you push-reraise here or throw it away?

easy push in my mind...

and TT vs. AK is not a bad beat.

Push. But you dont have any fold equity.

Assuming you shove and action folds back to UTG, he only has to put in 765 into a pot of 1890 to call.

Good point about the fold equity, I forgot to account for the size of the pot.

Maybe TT vs. AK doesn't classify as a bad beat, but it's certainly an annoying one. 57% is more than a coinflip, and it was just the latest in a long string of losses as the favorite. But that's beside the point here.

I'm pushing this with 1800 chips 12 bb or less. You are obv. getting called but aq isn't a bad hand.

First in I'm pushing this without hesitation but with the raise and call in front there is an increased chance I'm either dominated or a slight dog to an underpair if I'm called. That's what worries me here. But it sounds like there is consensus that I should push anyway.

Don't worry about being a slight dog to an underpair. The amount of money in the pot will make up the % edge your opponent has. The only hands you don't want to see are AA, KK, QQ and AK. And I suspect you'll get called by AJ, so that makes up a lot of the downside as well.

easy push

UTG maybe maybe has you, but there are a lot of situations where you have a good shot at slightly more than doubling, if not tripling.

Okay, so chalk this one up to a weak decision on my part. I threw it away.

I've realized from looking at my recent histories that when I'm short-stacked I'm not capitalizing on pushing opportunities when they arise, whether in a situation like this or when I do have fold equity to open-push. I end up waiting a bit too long for solid hands and the result is significantly reduced FE when I do push. Gotta plug that leak.