I have just taken a pretty bad beat, leaving me with 10x the BB.

I am on the BB and pick up 86s.

It is folded to the button who raises 3x the BB.

I shove all in.

Was this play wrong or was it correct?

I know that when you get really short you need to start pushing in order to double up before your stack gets so low that a double up wouldn't help much, but is 10x low enough that I should consider shoving with suited connectors?

Keep in mind that my opponent was quite loose and aggressive.

Best to post a formatted HH. We need to know the blinds and stack sizes of all players, or at the very least you+him.

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Yeah, I sometimes find it difficult to remember to keep the HH. I'll try to remember next time.

But, if I remember correctly, the blinds were 25/50.

I had 550 in chips, and my opponent had about 1750.

OK. It's a good move if the button is a very aggressive player who can lay down a hand. Against an unknown, I prolly fold.

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That doesn't seem great to me.

A guy has made it 150 and your all in to 550 is asking him to put 400 into a pot of 675. If he calls and loses he will still be left with 1250 (25bb). Seems he can call with a pretty wide range here.

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Thanks for the replies.

To Waster:

What I was really wondering was at which point should I start shoving with hands like suited connectors. Keep in mind that this was an online sng, and the levels were increasing every 10 minutes. I believe there was only about 2-3 minutes left until the blinds went up to 50/100, leaving me with about 5x the BB.

I know that he'd probably have to call, but does this really seem like a bad spot to push? He was on the button, after all, and there seemed to be a good chance that he was trying to steal as he was a very loose and aggressive player.

If we're tight than he's making a mistake by calling. If he has, say, Q3 offsuit, his equity is at best 25% against our range. Besides Q3 is almost a coinflip against 86 suited. So if we know he's very loose-aggressive pushing is a good play if we have a tight image. That's of course assuming he's good enough to pay attention, and to know when to fold.

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I should have had a tight image. The entire table was playing very maniacally, two of them having never folded A SINGLE HAND preflop (and were remarkably the big stacks). I only played about 12% of the hands due to having the average preflop raise be like 5-10x the BB (no exaggeration).

Of course, the guy who had been calling all ins with stuff like 74o and J7s (no joke) woke up with KK.

In push/fold situations it is all about first in vigorish. You don't have this here. It's a fine hand to open shove from LP when you're short but coming over the top when you're likely to get called, I don't like. The blinds have just gone past you so you will hopefully get a chance before it gets back to you to get your chips in first.

I would agree with Jharding666. Think in this way. You want to double up. Stealing blinds might not happen as you are short stack. I would wait for a premium hand and shove it and have a greater chance to double up than any suited connectors. I rarely call a 3X BB raise with suited connectors, depending on the other person's stack size and mine etc etc.. Even if the blinds raise quickly they are working in you favour as you want a loose call with your monster hand and double or may be triple up.

I would say fold.