Thoughts on attacking the blinds late in a tourney

[Crunch]

Looking for opinions here...

Your late into a tourney. Through tight, smart playing you're in the money, but sitting 15th chipwise out of 20. Your stack is say 7000 and the blinds are not 200/400. You need to pick up some money to stay alive and have a shot at the final table.

On the button or the cutoff you get J10o. Assumption number 1: They've lasted this long, these folks have an idea about how to play hold'em. Do you take a shot at the blinds when it's checked around to you?

Thoughts behind this move: A raise, using Ryptyde's playing theory would suggest a 3-4x blind raise. That raise would be 1200-1600 of your 7000 chips. This would leave little room for a pot-sized raise on the flop being nearly all your chips and possibly an all-in. I guess this is the meat of my questions, do you take a shot at the blind buying when doing so will cost you over 50% of your chips when you get called and face having to put an all-in bet on the turn? I often find myself pondering blind-stealing where a botched steal or a called flop will leave me with either no stack, or severly crippled if it doesnt work..

[AvatarKava]

Once you are short (under about 10xBB), stealing is no longer an issue.

It's all-in or fold. Pick a hand and run with it.

[Crunch]

I edited the amounts to be a bit more realistic, 200/400 or 300/600 sounded more appropriate for final 20. Still a bit above 10xBB.

[TylerK]

It depends on how your postflop play is. If you think that you can outplay your opponent postflop, you can raise 3x in this situation and play the flop if you get called. Otherwise, just push and pray.

[Running Gag]

If I'm shortstacked, or large stack for that matter, and it's folded/limped around to me, I'd go for a blind steal with any suited no, 1, or 2 gap connectors, or any offsuit connectors no lower than 10-9. Raise your usual preflop amount, and then, if you read that your opponent hit nothing on the flop, push. That's usually enough to take it down right there. If it doesn't work, oh well, hope to suck out. You don't have much options when you're that low.