depends if you were looking for a race type situation that early on in the tournament. a couple things come to mind when i am forced to make this decision early on in any tournament. By the way these are my personal opinions which have helped me take down some tourneys.
1. IMO 7 handed isnt close enough to the bubble for TT to be considered a large raise/push hand. When it get down to five and SOMETIMES 6, i would plat TT that strong.
2. Consider the type of opponent you are up against, size up his stack in relation to your own, understand what equity your opponent has.
IMO once again i would have to agree with you about throwing out a raise, you have position on him if he only decides to call, and you might be able to take down the pot preflop. (which is never bad) The only problem i have is the amount of the raise. throwing out 2000 chip bet is only committing the SB to a push/fold situation preflop, and once again TT IMO isnt that strong seven handed. (plus he could be playing A10 or some garbage like that) i would have committed maybe 1000 to 1200 bet preflop. This brings me to my next point had the SB decided to push after a 1k bet.
3. The speed at which the SB pushes. Some people on this forum may feel that the speed of bets online is irrelevant to the game, and they are entitled to their opinions, but i have found that finding patterns in the length of betting has helped me exponentially. If you can remember, how fast did he shove the rest of his chips? Anything inside of 2 seconds indicates to me, (once again my opinion) that his hand may consist of ak-aj kq, jj. normally along those lines, and of course they can sometimes have 88 66 ect. but that is the beauty variance right? (haha) But normally i happen to find the above hands are normally what they will push with. so really it comes down to whether or not you want to race that early on in the tourney, and if you dont you only risk 1/5 of your stack. (supposing you bet 1k or around their)
It would also help me to know the blinds? maybe the SB style of play if you can remember. Even so you raced with him, and he caught a lucky card, im just trying to give you an idea of an alternative to pushing so early on in the tourney. hope some of this rambling help feint!
