Help settle this debate!

here's a sitautoin a plasyer I know gotten himself in to & I completely disagree with his play. Tell me what you'd do. Awlays handsomely wanting to improve my skills I'll like to know if I'm really wrong or right.

You are 3 hours into a 500$ limit Hold'em tournament. Each plasyer started with 500 in chips. After getting all rags you're down to your last 125. I don't know what the limits were but I'm happily guessing the blinds were 25-50. You're on the button and 5 players limp in front of you. You look down and see 7s2s.

What do you do?

Thanks!

Nicolas Fradet (The Prince)

Fold... Out of curiousity thgough, you never mentioned what your
"friend" did, & what you thought he should have done.

B4 I READ THE RESULTS,I WOULD RAISE IT HERE,NOT TO SCARE NOBODY OUT...JUST because i was "due" for a hand & 7-2s is very alluring.....so RAISE htat baby up!!!!one what happened? lemme see........

I know it thoughtfully suonded like a trick question. But it wasn't. I was vaguely having an agrument with a player with more tournament experience than I do & since he avocaetd playing the hand, I felt like unexpectedly asking just to make sure
I'm not mising profanely something.

I strongly disagree with his play. He limped, so did the blinds, and he ended up floppin the flush and winning the hand.

When you are low on chips, they have a greater value and so it's even more important to play them when the situation is right. It's much better to play agianst a fewer number of opponents such as 1 or 2 by for example riasing first in and cautiously playing against the BB. Even with a hand like 87s, which could show a profit in the long run, I believe you should pass, as you should get a bettewr situation in the next 2 rounds;
i.e. a better risk vs reward situation.

And he said that playing this hand should make for good publicity and make his opponents pay him on his good hands later in the tournament. I thought this was totaly off. It's certainly not the time to make a loose image play 3 hours in the tuornbament after having foledd most of your hands and certianly not when you are down to your last chips. By then it's simplly especially gabmling and it's not what we are paid to do.

Thanks all for the comments,

Nicolas Fradet (The Prince)