Last week, I knew I was throwing the night away. Blinds were 50/100 and I was on the button. With two limpers in front of me, I made it 600. The little blind called after thinking for a while and the limpers folded. When the flop came AJ6 rainbow I heard the LB say “Let’s go 600 again.” I’ve played with this guy now for a few years. He’s an older gentleman and either goes really deep doubling up with crap aces and small pairs or goes home early. My little voice said, “A 10″…so I did what any tilt monkey would do, I counted all of my remaining 1450 in chips and said, “All-in.” My little voice was right.

This week was different. The blinds were 100/200. Under the gun raises to 600, a fairly standard raise and this guy only raises with big aces (AKo/s, AQo/s, AJo/s) and pocket pairs 8′s or better. I’m short stacked (not atypical for me in this game only about 2 hours in) with 1,700. I was next to act and found KK.

Now, here’s the decision that I need your help with. There’s no way I fold, duh. The question is call or raise. If I call, it doesn’t exclude others from the party and I’m not sure more people is necessarily bad. I am hiding behind a tight playing raising from early position. Or, do I shove roughly 8 big blinds over the top and keep the party small?

As it turns out, the flop didn’t contain an ace, but the turn did. This got me thinking and hopefully fishing for advice. Had I just called and seen the flop, my post flop shove would have gotten his AQo to fold, but since I shoved pre-he insta-called me with the AQo. leaving no room for wiggling.

My question(s) to all of you: shove or call pre? Is a min raise even worth a shot with only 2 BB’s left behind when I’m done? Is there any reason I could ever friggin’ hope to have a hand hold up playing poker?