Have you been folding to his 3bets? What is your fold to 3bet %? Unless I feel he's abusing me (taking adv. of a high fold to 3bet %) I'm prob folding here….I don't like calling off (although you would have a few bb's left) on the bubble when I'm likely racing.

really think your image/history with villain is the most important piece of info here. i can see calling and folding but it all depends on how you've been playing and how you two have been playing against each other.

I'll be honest I'm not sure anyone can answer that question.  AQ vs. certain villans with certain game flow is a snap and vs. others it's an easy fold.  Obviously my statement isn't profound…

What I really responded for is to ask a question…  I feel like a hot topic in MTT world nowadays has been is playing ubber tight around bubble being more or less profitable.  I'm sure there has been some real icm math done on this, but I have not searched for it.  My reasoning and I don't think it's wrong is that I always just assumed that it was always correct to play for 1st.  That being said it didn't mean I go crazy around bubble, but with certain table dynamics I start to min. raise like 75%+ from many positions around 5 to bubble.  Although if I am ~12bb's/less and there are many extremely short players I may just tighten way the F up.  I really don't “know” what is correct…   Using real icm math which way tends to be more profitable.  I'm sure various stk sizes have a large determining factor so if you know this information could you please post it.  

Ok slightly intoxicated during this post so I'm hoping my random rambles actually makes sense.  I know it does in my brain right now… sorta.