Low stakes MTT question re: A2 suited on bubble
Was playing a $60 buyin ~7 tables tournament last weekend and found myself in a spot that I'm questioning in hindsight. Lots of y'all know more than me so curious about feedback.
Got to final table, 7 places paid starting at ~260 for 7th to ~1.2k for 1st. 8 people currently left. Blinds at 5k/10k and I think I had ~9BB in chips, probably 2-3 other players with less than me (maybe 4BB to 7BB stacks) and nobody with a ton more than me I think.
2 folds before its gets to me and looked down at A2 suited, shoved, got through everyone until BB called with AK, best hand won (hit my deuce on flop but lost to runner runner spades 
).
Part of me didn't hate the shove because IMO it looked pretty strong from early/middle position and with pressure of bubble I figured I'd only get called by very premium hands.
Part of me thinks maybe I should have just dropped it and waited for one of the other small stacks to take their turn getting it in before me, as anything that calls me is probably ahead.
Curious where it falls on the spectrum of blunder to standard (seems like the charts say I'm a loser but charts are for nerds).
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That's a big bubble with 1st 4.5x the mincash. I would probably wait for the shorter stacks to bust or shove from later position, and maybe not quite as good a hand. You need to keep stealing so as not to get real short, but this doesn't seem like the best situation.
Yeah, while a suited ace is never a terrible shove at a final table considering the blocker effect and that you always have reasonable equity when called (except against AA obviously, but nothing does), the size of the bubble, your position, and how many stacks are even shorter than you would have me playing very tight here. Especially if one of the shorter stacks was going to hit the blinds before me (although if one of them is really as short as 4BB, even that doesn't matter too much).
Is there an ante?
