sorry, but i totally disagree w/ ur thought process here.

opening up to 4x is just terrible and limp calling up to 5x also. defenitely w/ 20bb or less, but that doenst really matter. I'm not looking to lose blinds and lose my fold equity playing a voulnerable hand. 

minraising and cbet/fold would cost me about a quarter of my stack, so my intention here is to pick up the blinds and increase my stack over 10%. 

maybe raise-folding or raise c/f if we miss is still possible, but i went for the shove seeing i was barely playing a hand being carddead or having action ahead of me.

i think folding in this spot is too weak since my range should be so narrow giving my image that players should only be calling w/ their top range. if i get called i'm crushed for sure, but i expected to get folds over 90% of the time here. 

i'm asuming ur new to the site and poker, but w/ the help of TPE ull be getting better and more knowledgeable pretty fast. gl 2 ya

Changing your betsizes is bad as it gives away tells like people raise 3x and than raise 4-5 if they have JJ-KK, AK because they dont want rag aces to call and outflop their JJ-KK or small-mid pairs to outflop their JJ-AA, AK.

By limp calling you are giving away control of the pot oop. If you raise its much easier to represent a hand if you missed and still take it down. If i'm the first into the pot i'm always raising, whether it be AK, big pairs, small pairs, suited connectors or crap. 

Sometimes when I shove and lose I also start to think “what if I just raised and b/f or c/f, I'd still have 15x or something to play with and still be in it to win it”. But if you do you'll lose you're FE after you paid the blinds and are down to 10bb and have to narrow you're shoving range and you'll blind down even more and bust. 

True, it's not the only way to go, but these pros know what they're doing and have come so far by playing the style they're teaching us. So in the long run it will pay dividence to play as these professionals (or at least I'm trying). 

You can't always hope to double up when you're down to 10bb everytime and then say “good thing I played it passively before or else I would've been out.”

I was 68/107 in the tourny in question and I openshoved 18bb w A10s from MP and got called by AKs and busted. If I had minraised and folded to a 3bet I still would have had 16bb to find another spot to double up. But you're not going to get premiums that often that you can wait for it because you'll blind down and be forced to shove weaker holdings with not enough blinds for big stacks to fold your shove. Ive been shoving crap OTB and in the SB to keep me alive and when I finally had a decent hand someone had a better one. 

But if you like to play differently and it works for you and your confident, then good for you. 

P.S.: It's possible I'm not completely right shoving KJo there or the A10s I played. Would like to hear what the TPE pros have to say about it.

Folding pre is not bad imo and if fact I think it is the best play. Now if I think the people behind me are likely to fold (relatively tight) then shoving is not bad. If they are not tight though, I am folding KJo with 19bb's in MP2. You still have plenty of FE and time to wait for a slightly better spot. People think you have 2 face cards with 19bb's that you have to play them, not true…you are in the same shape if you shove T 8o in that same spot. Who cares what your cards are, with the two big stacks behind you, pick your spots well and there will be a better one soon.

I fold probably, or minraise and fold to action. I don’t like open shoving here unless I have -16bb

10min lvls, ive been fairly quiet, players behind werent agg, pretty straight forward, thats all i remember. just knew that they were only calling w JJ+, AK, so i had 95% chance to get my shove through, if called i was ****ed basically

it does, tx for the replies guys;

TPE!!!

im folding this one, too many stacks to go through, large (ready to abuse you), small (ready to call light).  and I am not that short.