Waiting for a better spot

[pat3392]

$1.00+$0.10 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) MTT top 10% get paid 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Katzenfrau (5525 in chips)
Seat 2: cd161 (6317 in chips)
Seat 3: pepeatm (3469 in chips)
Seat 4: Maxwell Hall (1180 in chips)
Seat 5: Tiborlake (3645 in chips)
Seat 6: sergeich2010 (1075 in chips)
Seat 7: scooby1055 (921 in chips)
Seat 8: McKenzie425 (259 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: A.Babyakin (10830 in chips)
Katzenfrau: posts the ante 25
cd161: posts the ante 25
pepeatm: posts the ante 25
Maxwell Hall: posts the ante 25
Tiborlake: posts the ante 25
sergeich2010: posts the ante 25
scooby1055: posts the ante 25
McKenzie425: posts the ante 25
A.Babyakin: posts the ante 25
Tiborlake: posts small blind 100
sergeich2010: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Maxwell Hall [Ad 9c]
scooby1055: raises 696 to 896 and is all-in
McKenzie425: folds
A.Babyakin: folds
Katzenfrau: folds
cd161: folds
pepeatm: folds
Maxwell Hall: raises 259 to 1155 and is all-in

Should have I chosen a better spot than this? This play is +EV but perhaps I should have pushed on the cut off since there would be more EV due to fold equity? Opinions?

I never really know what to do in this scenarios; in this particular one though I think push was the only move due to being incredibly short stacked, I can't fold and rely on everyone folding the next round. What if I had a M of 5 instead? Or how about 7? Would that still be a mandatory push spot? Are there any articles/books about this concept?

[fjuanl]

With your stack I'm taking every +EV spot I can take. The shove looks good although I could see folding this with a good read and w/o antes

[revolvingiris]

As fjuanl stated you need to take every +EV line you can. A good book on short stack play is "Kill them All"

[drmcboy]

or Kill Everyone