Range assessment

Rich57

125 buy-in tournament, 130 players. There were 20 of us left. Average chip stacks around 55-60 k.
Seven players at our table
Hero has 78 k in MP1
Villain in BB with 50 k
Blinds are 4k and 8k no antes
Hero opens for 16k
Folds around to BB who calls
Flop is
BB bets 21k (half his stack)
Hero?

Rich57

Forgot to mention they were paying top 18

Ninjah

Fold pre. Opening this hand with less than a 10bb from MP this close to the money is ICM suicide. As played, I'm sticking it in here.

tripletire

This is a good shove in later positions, you'll be seeing more folds due to payout pressure. I wouldn't advise opening less than all-in from any position right now.

Roblivion

When you have ~10 BB but it's still more than the average stack, you do not want to bubble with JTs. You need to be folding this hand I think.

SaintsTigers

Shove-pre. In this kind of turbo tournament, a min cash isn't worth that much compared to the likely final table deal.

As played, get it all in. He's not doing that with a 5 since he wants you to cbet his air. If he does have a 10, you're beating some of them. And you're ahead of his flush draws.

Fernando T

with less then 10BB
You have no implaid odds, and this is a shove ou fold situention.
in MP1 easy fold, in CO or Button considerer shove .

But let´s talk about your hand.... Villain make a dunk bet, in this case with two spads in the bord he has an 5 or even 10. Preflop your bet was small and he has a wide range with a lot of 5 suits and unsuits combos.... fold for the ITM

ChipFlux

Good spot for a donk bet... BB is very polarized. Is he jamming anything pre? AJs? Maybe. Certainly QQ+. Given we have a J, that somewhat blocks AJ, KJ, QJ for villain, and some portion of these combos villain jams pre. What 5 is he calling with and then donking? Although some player types will stab with a 5 in these spots hoping to get a call. FD will sometimes weak lead in this spot too. As played, I think I just go ahead and jam. And expect to see a 5 or a FD if called. Bet folding in villain's spot is also horrible, but villains will sometimes make stabs on these dryish boards hoping to take it down as villain can have a 5 but hero should never have a 5 in your hand . Your hand is a little too strong to fold, and you want to force villain to commit the stack with a FD.

As mentioned above, think this hand is a fold pre, and min raise is sub optimal to an open jam.

GabeyJ

i dont get myself into this situation often but i think you have to just get it in at this point. Like the others have mentioned this open in EP will get you into trouble but i dont think you can fold now . he will have some 5s but i would say you have to much equity against his overall range and to much in the pot to fold with top pair .