I had AQs here and decided to isolate the all-in short stack but ran into KK, could I have played this differently. Surely, i'm not expected to fold AQs here, am I?

Sunday storm only had 9 players today? wow
OT: I can see a call here and just play the flop if BB calls, fold if he re-shoves. But IMO it isn't a bad play to iso here

Moved....

BBV.

if BB is a decent player i afraid that he may sqeeze relatively light so i am not sure that just calling and then folding is a correct

Huh? Hero pushed with what is now an effective stack of 24BBs.

standard shove wp.

In the sunday storm, one may never assume that an opponent is a decent player, except if he has shown to be. Does OP have any history/reads/stats on BB?

It depends a lot on dynamics...players tend to push too tight, and call too tight.

I'd probably call based on stacks alone...but go with reads.

standard shove at this spr

Thanks guys:

Given the stack sizes, I was only worried about BB tbh and I thought if I shove, he has to call with only 2.6% of hands (QQ+, AK) if he's not a gambler so 97.4% of the times i can't bust even if small stack guy has AA. If he calls with anything worse than 2.6% then it's either a race or he's behind so that's +ev for me anyway.

I was never really worried about a squeeze because if I just call UTG+1 preflop and he squeezes, the pot will have +60k giving me 2 to 1 if I complete. That means I will only need slightly over 33% winning chance to show a profit by calling his squeeze. Now AQs obviously has more than 33% winning chance against his squeeze range so I will have to call. Because of that reason, i thought it's better to just shove and give myself more ways of winning (i.e make him fold or beat his call)

I guess my original question which doesn't seem to have been answered is, if I'm sitting with 34bb in a touney approaching a bubble and I see someone with 7bb-12bb going all-in, should I be calling them with AQs type of hands or is their stack just slightly bigger to risk losing 35% of my stack?

just unlucky that the only player with a stack of more than 20 BB's happened to wake up with a monster hand.

Too generic a question. You have to take these spots on a situation by situation basis. It would depend on other stacks at the table, positions, types of opponents, etc...

File: HH20150508 Halley #5 - $0.01-$0.02 - USD No Limit Hold'em.txt
PokerStars Zoom Hand #134955249861: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2015/05/08 16:29:27 WET [2015/05/08 11:29:27 ET]
Table 'Halley' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: foodcoorner ($2.98 in chips)
Seat 2: TopPoplavok ($0.42 in chips)
Seat 3: valerossipma ($2.24 in chips)
Seat 4: akinoshima ($2.28 in chips)
Seat 5: mypokerphd ($4.40 in chips)
Seat 6: MV429 ($0.49 in chips)
TopPoplavok: posts small blind $0.01
valerossipma: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mypokerphd [9h As]
akinoshima: folds
mypokerphd: raises $0.04 to $0.06
MV429: calls $0.06
foodcoorner: folds
TopPoplavok: folds
valerossipma: folds
*** FLOP *** [5c 2d 7d]
mypokerphd: bets $0.06
MV429: raises $0.37 to $0.43 and is all-in
mypokerphd: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.37) returned to MV429
MV429 collected $0.26 from pot
MV429: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.27 | Rake $0.01
Board [5c 2d 7d]
Seat 1: foodcoorner (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: TopPoplavok (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: valerossipma (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: akinoshima folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mypokerphd folded on the Flop
Seat 6: MV429 collected ($0.26)