Borgata WPO Seniors event ($300+30). 186 runners. $16K first prize. Paying 18 spots.
~80 runners left, blinds at 500/1000 + 100
Hero has 15,000 chips (starting stack equivalent) so 15BB, down from 50K+ one level ago due to a few tough beats. Moved to new table, so few reads on other players, but other players have few reads back. New table does not seem to have any really aggressive players, nor any huge stacks.
After two orbits of mostly folding with crap cards (won a single small pot showing top pair (kings)), and blinds set to go up again to 600/1200 in 3 minutes, Hero sees Q
T
UTG+1.
Hero decides to limp for 1000 with plan to limp/shove over any small raises rather than open shove. After Hero's limp, two other players call the limp to the button, who raises to 4500. (Button has ~65000 chips). Hero executes plan and shoves for 16,500. Limpers all fold. Button tanks and then calls with AQo
Regardless of outcome of hand, is this a good play? Obviously folding pre is an option, but with 15BB and mostly card dead, is it better to just open-shove or is it a good play to try to pick up an extra 4000-5000 (in this case 7500) chips by limp-shoving, also figuring that the hand hits a lot of flops and if you end up getting to see the flop for 1000 chips that's fine also.
Thoughts?