Wow that is tough its very tempting and yeah your never going to be better than racing. Whats the blinds and how many BBs do you have?

Would be easier to access with an actual hand history.

However, you don’t need to take 2:1 in situations where you’re more than a 2:1 dog.  If you put him on a pocket pair, you are a 4:1 dog.  If it affects your stack greatly I probably pick a better spot.  If it is only a small portion of your stack, it depends on the player.

if you’re getting 2:1 then you need ~33% equity against his shoving range to breakeven on the call.

without the actual situation–positions, stacks behind, etc–it’s pretty hard to range villain and really answer.

in general, though, if, say, it folds to me on the BTN with 22 and 15-25BB stacks i’ll usually opt for a shove if i think there’s too good a chance that i’m getting shoved on because raise/calling with 22 isn’t that great considering that we never have our opponent crushed and the only hands that don’t have ~45-50% equity against us are 2x, which is just really unlikely. and A2 has ~30% equity!

i used to rarely fold pairs to ~15-20BB resteals, however if you sit and do the math, raise/calling 22-77 for 20BB really isn’t profitable against any reasonable range.