ok for argument sake lets say you have 20bbs, if you know your table pretty well as im guessing you do being at the final 2 tables. you have a few options, one play that i like is pretty much rasing any two cards right here utg when you have 20 bbs left. its like your last chance to stay above that mark.  If you get 3 bet you can judge accordingly if you want to 4 bet shove over certain players and feel pretty comfortable about it. i mean your 7 handed so ATs is pretty large and i cant see myself folding here to anyone thats been agro. if you rasie and tight nit thats just trying to make the ft shoves over you easy fold.

I like shoving better than a raise here and I'll give you a few reasons

– two big stacks can squeeze easy putting pressure on  you to call all in with a weaker hand, if you raised 2.5x now you're down to 17bb with the blinds hitting you, I think it's a fold if you raise and they squeeze

– your stack is big enough to seriously damage the big stacks

– jamming forces the other stacks to wake up with a big hand, makes it harder to squeeze or 3 bet with J10s and call your jam feeling priced in

– down to 14/15 players and people are going to tighten their range for calling all ins

– I have seen people lay down hands like A10, AJ, AQ in spots like this near the end of a tourny trying to move up the pay ladder

– you have outs if called by AJ, AQ, AK, KK, QQ…..

anyhow these are some things that cross my mind.  could be wrong let me know what ya think

I actually think its fine to fold here. there’s a good chance that you find easier spots to chip up here in an $11 buy in with this stack. depending on villains being weak/tight/scared i think min raise stealing in late position is even fine with anything over 15bb. they won’t be exploiting you nearly as much as in higher buy in tourneys. remember to target the right villains though. if u get to a flop villains won’t be nearly good enough most of the time, we have the tpe edge.

I think of what bigdog advocates in these situations work perfect for him with his super agro style and in the higher buy ins where exploitable play will be exploited. i personally think there are enough weak players around small stakes that, as long as your intelligent about it and pick your villains carefully, you will get away with technically exploitable play.