Bad push?

opps numbers were about 20/12. This is 2 1/2 hours into a $20 s/g on stars. Very long game. Over the previous 10-12 hands opp has raised to 1200 with wide variety. I floated him twice to take chip lead than lost a small pot to get to this point.

After the hand I felt like a simple call would have been better. However...with the blinds as they were I would have been calling off more than 10% of my stack so I pushed. is this bad logic?

I put opp on A -x at best.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (2 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Hero (t5892)
Button (t7608)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J, A.
Button raises to t1200, Hero raises to t5842, Button calls t4642.

Flop: (t11684) 6, 7, K (2 players)

Turn: (t11684) 9 (2 players)

River: (t11684) T (2 players)

Final Pot: t11684

this is a great spot. sorry you ran into a big hand

So it's not the worst push? Opp had a king but I don't care. I've done that before too. I'm past the bad beats.

I'm trying to get more agressive from the bubble on. Doing well but this one I questioned. I may have been able to play small ball all night and squeek out a win but the push felt so much better!

You played it fine

If opp had been raising most every hand heads up, you could push with all aces and mid/high kings...so having AJ is a great

TY all. I'm past being results oriented....trying to learn better play. This particular S/G had 4 of the 9 players up over 4.5k on scope with solid ROI's. Very tough game. Played TAG and did ok.

Great advice on ranges fjuan1. TY.

I would push this all day long.

...and twice on sunday.

AJ heads up is a monster hand, I would push this against anyone no matter how tight they are. Against a lagg I agree with fjuanl's range.

For a 10max (?) sng 2½ hours is madness, I think the longest I've ever played was closer to 1½. With an incredibly tight table like that I'd be more than happy to steal the blinds every chance I get, I think you haven't been nearly aggressive enough in the late game.

Push is just fine, but you said that he calls with a wide variety, so you know its going to be a race. So, you made the correct play, he just got lucky. A simple call is definitely not the correct move because of your stack size.

No its not going to be a race, thats what makes this so good. A large portion of opps range is worse Ax's, meaning often when he calls we'll have him dominated. Thats a great position to be in.

no i meant, even if he had a pocket pair, or any medium cards, ofcourse it is going to be a race...