Controversial Hand

Do you guys like this play, given stack sizes, etc? There was quite the discussion afterwards.

***** Hand History for Game 2005940799 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Friday, May 06, 00:07:01 EDT 2005
Table Table 36922 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: beadgcf ( $53.05 )
Seat 4: sejje ( $61.7 )
Seat 3: borgcube ( $53.7 )
Seat 1: MikeyPao ( $20.55 )
Seat 7: toonay222 ( $5.25 )
Seat 6: cbellefo ( $19.1 )
Seat 5: d00d18 ( $59.55 )
Seat 8: bedsidecrane ( $49.9 )
Seat 9: jserio52 ( $63 )
Seat 10: littlejerry7 ( $35.35 )
borgcube posts small blind [$0.25].
sejje posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to sejje [ Kc Ah ]
d00d18 folds.
>You have options at Table 37328 Table!.
>You have options at Table 37242 Table!.
cbellefo raises [$2].
toonay222 is all-In [$5.25]
bedsidecrane folds.
jserio52 folds.
littlejerry7 folds.
MikeyPao calls [$5.25].
beadgcf folds.
borgcube folds.
sejje is all-In [$61.2]
cbellefo is all-In [$17.1]
>You have options at Table 37328 Table!.
>You have options at Table 36997 Table!.
littlejerry7: set of 8s wins
>You have options at Table 37242 Table!.
MikeyPao folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, 7d, 2s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
cbellefo shows [ Qs, Js ] two pairs, queens and sevens.
toonay222 doesn't show [ As, Kh ] a pair of sevens.
sejje shows [ Kc, Ah ] a pair of sevens.
sejje wins $42.6 from side pot #2 with a pair of sevens.
cbellefo wins $26.35 from side pot #1 with two pairs, queens and sevens.
cbellefo wins $20.2 from the main pot with two pairs, queens and sevens.

no, too often you're just setting yourself up to get crushed. You're only ahead of aq/ QJ(wtf), but most of the time your only callers will be ak/aa/kk/qq and you're probably gonna lose

Yeah, but I didn't want a caller.

I wanted to go heads up with Mr. $5.25, and have $7.25 extra to cover some odds if I'm behind.

But hey, if he's got QJ, he can call. ;)

hmm. well i didn't notice the other guys stack was short too. Given they're both short, I don't think its terrible, but i still wouldn't do it probably.

I'd make this play and like it a lot in a tournament setting, but not in a cash game. I agree with the above posters, you're usually getting called by a better hand.

With the two short stacks if I feel like a gamble with limited risk I might do it.

you see a lot of short stacks pushing with lower PPs, if you have that read it's a reasonable play... and I assume you had that read since dude raised 4x UTG with QJs! Beee zare.