Shorty push, bigstack call, squeeze for value?

[Sykedupp]

Full Tilt Poker Game #3188417685: $17,000 Guarantee (23832254), Table 27 - 400/800 Ante 100 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:51:50 ET - 2007/08/08
Seat 1: SaskMan (20,461)
Seat 2: StockPicker (3,036)
Seat 4: edhynes (42,220)
Seat 5: kevin235 (23,586)
Seat 6: oly1236 (2,558)
Seat 7: Raul5683 (32,192)
Seat 8: AmineR (10,354)
Seat 9: Sykedupp (17,276)
SaskMan antes 100
StockPicker antes 100
edhynes antes 100
kevin235 antes 100
oly1236 antes 100
Raul5683 antes 100
AmineR antes 100
Sykedupp antes 100
Sykedupp posts the small blind of 400
SaskMan posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Sykedupp [Ac 8s]
StockPicker folds
edhynes folds
kevin235 folds
oly1236 raises to 2,458, and is all in
Raul5683 calls 2,458
AmineR folds
Sykedupp has 15 seconds left to act
Sykedupp ???

If i push im almost certain bigstack folds, thus giving my A8 3:1 vs close to a random hand. Too risky?

-Chris

[johnny_fish]

Call and let him make mistakes in the sidepot. I'm not convinced big stack will fold often enough.

[KillThatInfidel]

Call here and check down unless u hit fatty.

[thelipkin]

I love this move. Bigstack has no reason to call unless he has a premium hand or has some reason to call bullshit on you from your past play. I really don't think anything worse than AQ will look you up here, and AQ probably shouldn't.

You said it right, you are probably ahead of the shorty, probably behind the bigstack, so there is no reason to call here. If you want to play a speculative hand for a flop against a bigstack, don't do it in a hand where you will be forced to show it down because of the shorty. This spot is mostly an easy fold, but you know the bigstack better than I do, and if your experience says he lays this down here enough of the time, this is exquisite, logical, correct poker.

As an afterthough, this play is actually easier to make here with something like k8 as you will still have 1.5 overs on most of his pp range, are still ahead of absolute trash, and can do a better job dodging being dominated by a better ace. A8 is still more than enough of a hand here though.