Allow me to set the scene, in a local pub in the depths of essex there lies a small friday night poker tournament, players come from near and slightly further away to spend a friday night in the company of other men around tiny tables and on crappy seats and to gamble. Some people can play, for others its a crap shoot.

For the most part this particular MTT is well structured, the problem occurs on the final table when, unless things have wrapped up very quickly, everyone is short stacked and the blinds are doubling every 10 minutes.

So, final table comes around and we're all in the money, after a recent double up I'm rocking a massive 10 BBs on the button with AJ suited. To help put things in perspective the big stack on the table only had around 25 BBs, so while I'm short it's not a dreadfull spot. I raise up to 3 BBs and the BB (who also has 10BBs) shoves. The BB has been playing well all night, picking good spots to make his move and very rarely gets his money in bad.
While a fold here would drop me to 7 BBs it would not put me on the bottom of the pile, so there is some fold equity here (albeit not tons).

So here's the main question, do you make the call? For extra credit, is AJ suited ever a calling hand?

Everyone at the table was getting paid, fifth place only paid the buy in though.
The entire table was short relative to blinds but about even relative to each other, so nobody's getting blinded out in the next 4 rounds or so.

As for range all I had on the guy was that he knew what he was doing, he was defending his blinds a bit before but as we were all short relative to blinds a lot of play was disabled, it was either shove or fold time . I only saw him shove once before to cut off a draw with two pair.

So what would you do?

You make a good point there aces, duly noted

Are you gonna tell us what you actually did then? My guess is that in most occasions your gonna be in a coin flip here...He would definately shove with any pair....Occasionally he's gonna have AK, AQ and then your screwed. As already mentioned, you gotta shove here as folding to a re-raise is really gonna hurt you. If he's got you beat, just put it down to a cooler....