In the SB with Pocket 7's and facing a raise from UTG

[jimmer]

85 players left. I was playing loose until around 10 minutes ago when my AQ lost to AT when the flop arrived AQT. I lost $5000.

All three players to my left are new to the table. I have no information on them

PokerStars Game #18286825774: Tournament #92883774, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/06/21 - 14:23:53 (ET)
Table '92883774 3' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: uwannabet67 (1790 in chips)
Seat 2: Kosarka2002 (2595 in chips)
Seat 3: CrashCicero (3245 in chips)
Seat 4: LeistenRiss (5371 in chips)
Seat 5: aguy458 (1892 in chips)
Seat 6: jbdb3 (1804 in chips)
Seat 7: LittleWings2 (8335 in chips)
Seat 8: mjaej (5503 in chips)
Seat 9: Cosmetics1 (795 in chips)
jbdb3: posts small blind 50
LittleWings2: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jbdb3 [7h 7d]
mjaej: raises 200 to 300
Cosmetics1: folds
uwannabet67: folds
Kosarka2002: folds
CrashCicero: folds
LeistenRiss: folds
aguy458: folds
jbdb3:????

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

Do not call. Either shove or fold, and I lean toward folding against an UTG raiser.

[MrDarling]

easy fold against unknown

[Muck]

You’re too short to call on a speculative play.
You’re too deep to push (IMO).
You’re too short to re-raise.

A begrudging fold seems the best option.

[Felting]

Fold, if your stack was smaller compared to the blinds(M somewhere between 5 and 10) I'd push

[ninetensuited]

fold unless you have specific reads. but DC is right its shove or fold.

[jimmer]

I played around 5x 180 seater sng's yesterday.

Apart from the one where I was out after two hands (First hand KK, second hand AA-lost both), I seemed to get to around 60th-80th position and then get into a rutt.

I folded this hand, but I was gradually losing distance on the others, so I'm wondering if I should of pushed all-in.

I'm happy with my decison to fold this hand, but after this moment, I had nothing else remotely playable for the rest of the torny.

By this stage most of the "close your eye's and hope for the best" players are already out. I'm wondering if I should just be taking a few more chances to accumulate chips and playing a little more aggressive around this time.

[Felting]

usually, u want to switch gears after the antes kick in. Once the antes are out there blind steals become much more valuable and can keep you a float till u catch a run of hot cards. Until then just play solid poker.

Just remember that if you are cashing 25% of the time you are doing super. There will be lots of tourneys where u just get card dead, take a bad beat, or get hit with a cooler. It's just the nature of the beast.