AK, is open-pushing the flop here ok?

[Nakamura]

$6.50 tourney. I want to C-bet here, but I know a c-bet here will pot-commit me. Is it acceptable to open-push in this situation?

PokerStars Game #19163828737: Tournament #98494483, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/07/28 - 06:45:08 (ET)
Table '98494483 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Jizzism (3280 in chips)
Seat 3: rewrew2 (2020 in chips)
Seat 4: Latin-Mirage (2434 in chips)
Seat 5: DealerHas22 (857 in chips)
Seat 6: Slim8r (2570 in chips)
Seat 8: maik1234 (859 in chips)
Seat 9: eNakamura (1480 in chips)
Slim8r: posts small blind 50
maik1234: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to eNakamura [Kc As]
eNakamura: raises 200 to 300
Jizzism: folds
rewrew2: folds
Latin-Mirage: calls 300
DealerHas22: folds
Slim8r: folds
maik1234: folds
*** FLOP *** [5h 2h Qs]
eNakamura: bets 1180 and is all-in

[taipan168]

Either make it 250 to go preflop or open shove - I mostly make it 250 to go unless one or more of the players still to act are loose and will call me with lots of Ax and Kx-type hands. Making it 250 rather than 300 to go preflop means the pot on the flop will be 550-650 rather than 650-750 and your flop c-bet can be 300-350 rather than 400-450.

As played, open shove is OK but on balance I prefer to c-bet 400, if you have to give up you still have 780 chips left which is not totally dead at 50/100 blinds (ie. you're not totally pot committed).

[drmcboy]

make it 400 pre so you can more comfortably shove the flop.