Personally I'm interested in what the pros have to say about this scenario as like Ron I struggle in this position and feel it is a major shortcoming in my game

My general inclination is to turf anything <55 if I'm in mid-to-late position if there is action in front of me.  I'd probably only jam small pairs if action folds to me and I have <12BB.  My gut tells me, however, that this is way too nitty.

I'd be concerned about 'shoving-size' stack of the SB and the 'monster stack' defending the BB.

Wouldn't flatting in this situation to set mine and folding to a shove by the blinds be the most appropriate line here?

The flat by a tight player with 15bb would make it a fold for me. You said Mexico has been tight, has he been agg pf or is calling raises his normal play? The flat seems strong to me if he is usually raising/3-betting when entering pots.

With 16bb I want to find an better spot where I can get allin HU and not potentially in a multi-way allin…esp with a small pair.

I think both swet and hawkeye are spot on here.  The flat by a tight player with that stack makes it a insta fold for me.  We can't setmine with our stack for sure.  I don't think you have enough FE to get this 3b jam through and when we are called we are crushed by every single pair possible.

I think its your stack size that eliminates a possible squeeze play where you are looking to get the other players to fold…you don't have the fold equity. I feel you need 30+bb effective to attempt a squeeze in general.

 If you are looking to shove over in hopes of being called and doubling up then your range posted above (77+ AQ+) should do well against the calling range of a random player.

The bubble burst a long while ago, it's the $5 rebuy with about 100 players remaining. 

Here's how I justify the set mining as a fold here… however my reasoning may be slightly off…

Our stack to start the hand is 32,000. It costs us 4,000 to flat call at odds of 7.5 to 1 to flop a set. 

To break even here we need to a return of 7.5*4000 = 30,000 when we flop a set. We therefore effectively need to double through every time we flop a set which won't happen although in this situation will be quite regular with such a large pot preflop if we see all 7.5 flops with small pairs, i.e. assuming we are never squeezed from behind and forced to fold. Also add into this the rare times we flop the underset.

I like this as a rule of thumb… take the amount u need to call (4,000) * 15 this 60,000 should be the minimum effective stacks you and one of your opponents need for you to call, to be maybe slightly adjusted if there is more than one opponenet, but this stack size puts us in the realm of being able to squeeze ourselves with FE.

Would be interested to hear if people agree with this…

Easy fold imo.

The guys screen name is seriously F–k Mexico?  That's like ape_shit on Bodog…sites filter chat and forget to filter names…lol.