CheckCallMuck

To me the clear choice is a call. You're risking your tournament life for a fraction of the current pot during the 1st level of blinds. If you win, you're in relatively good position to the remaining players (and as already said, no better off if you're +500 more chips at this stage). If you lose on a call, you're harmed, but not disabled for the rest of the tournament. If you lose on a shove, you're out. End of story.

First, I'd venture to say you're shoving into 4 people seeing as how KYO is left with 500 chips in the SB. Either s/he just lost a pot that left such a short stack, or this person is sitting out and was hoping to crawl into the money. Of those 4 people, the only one I'd be worried about calling me without a premium hand would be the table CL. The other 2 larger stacks would essentially be risking their tournament life by calling away ~60% of their stack, so you have to put their range of calling hands pretty high. But I digress...You're comparing what you would rather shove with to what yo

If this was Pokerstars I'd put him on Q9 knowing that the river will nail him in the gut.

I'd say fold here, but only because of the level of blinds. It's amazing how many times you see people donking off their chips and out of an SnG before level 3 (as is true here...8 at the table). Even if you push AIPF here, you're very likely to get 2 callers which is not what you want with AK. The guy with AA more than likely made the same mistake later on in the tournament and handed his chips over with 88 when he ran into JJ+, didn't pay attention to what was going on because his eyes were fixated on the 2 snowmen in front of him, and eagerly waited for his chance to move his slider all

Isn't it worth mentioning that in 4 hands he's going to realistically lose ~14% of his stack just from blinds and antes (more if the blinds/antes go up in that time) and leave him with an M of 6? He's at the lower end of the Orange Zone (M=6-10 "HoH2") and he has first in vigorish. HoH2 advocates pushing with hands as low as middle suited connectors, small pairs, and gapped paint when your M gets this low if the pot is unopened. A8 suited is certainly strong enough to justify a push especially since he's realistically going to lose 14% of his chips with hands worse than this one in only 4 m