$360 "Ultimate Re-Entry" 500k at the Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale. We're about five away from the bubble. The guarantee has been smashed with the prize pool now over $1m.

It's the final of 8 opening flights. Each flight plays down to 10%, automatically bagging in the money. In this tournament you can play multiple flights and any flight you bag more than once you win $2,500, which is taken out of the prize pool, best stack forward. (I have not bagged yet)

7 handed, blinds 3k/6k-1k. I have 230k and have the table well covered. Average has less than 100k. (Aggressive blind structure!) Decent 30-something Latin local player two to my left has 170k, very recently winning all those chips. The rest of the table is pretty short, with no one else being particularly good. I do not have much history with local, and he sat maybe 20 mins ago. But his is the only stack at the table that can hurt me.

The limited history is, saw him open limp with a suited connector a little earlier with short stacks to his left, and has already flatted my opens a couple times in late position with this table dynamic. So my read is he enjoys speculating despite the situation.

I've definitely been opening my share of pots but I believe my image is very good. So here I min the cutoff to 12k with A9. Local flats button without too much thought. The big blind, a visibly frustrated younger African American player quickly shoves for 45k.

Very easy fold. You do not close the action and given how the rest of the table should be playing bubble tight you can keep applying pressure each hand with little risk. Win the next hand uncontested and you come out ahead.

No reason for you to do anything drastic here. It's better to coast into the money with a playable stack than it is to bleed off a big part of your stack with a marginal holding.