A strawman is when someone argues against a dumbed-down version of someone's statements. Like when you argued "but pot odds do matter in tournament" you used an irrelevant analogy for reasons I already explained - you completely neglected my "in this case" modifier, which obviously was about AJ and a healthy stack after folding. And then when I mentioned allowing the donks to knock each other out, you say I advocate just waiting for aces? Do you really think that's what I was arguing? Do you think I make money playing SNGs by only playing those hands? You're so attacking the most insignificant details - splitting hairs.

I made this situation applicable to SNG-PT by acting like villain shoved in the first place. Either way all your chips will be in the middle if you call, and you'll have a healthy stack if you lose, just like the actual hand. I just removed the $330 from phil's stack before he had the decision to call the push or fold. Notice in the picture that you should NEVER call here (given the situation) with overcards. Not even AK! There's no good reason to take the worse end of a coinflip here when you still have 1570 chips at 30/60 blinds after folding. That's what I say, that's what SNG-PT says.



Remember, this is not a cash game, this is not an MTT. This is a SNG!

Escape,

If anyone is ignoring math, it's you. I know little to nothing about SnGs (EXCEPT WINNING $500 ONES WITH BILL IVEY AND LEE SCHUSTER AT TURNING STONE) so whether or not this is a call or fold is out of the scope of my expertise, and this post. But the math pretty clearly states that it's +EV in terms of tournament chips to call this.