$Freeroll NLHE MTT: Standard shove or am I playing it wrong?

oriole

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UTG calls (6bb behind) Cutoff raises to 5.2bb(26bb behind), I'm SB with 26bb and pocket tens. The pot is 8.4BB with antes included.
It was bubble stage and the 5.2x raise does look strong so I might have played it wrong by shoving, but can I really fold tens here? I know it's an easy shove with JJ+ and I'm folding with worse than tens, but I'm not sure what is the right play with tens with these stack sizes against unknown.
 
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Since we know nothing about the CO raiser I would fold as well. We don't know how lightly he raises in order to isolate and apparently I don't like flatting OOP. I would rejam with QQ+ only because we are at the bubble.
 
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Theres two plays in my perspective: the first is folding. Its the bubble stage, you dont want to be the bubble, a call from early position short stack might be a monster and the overbet shows a lot of strenght as well. Simply dont worth the risk.

The second one is shoving. In bubble stages, players with bigger stacks might play looser, if the bigger stack has, lets say, A9- on his range to try to isolate the short stack, he might call and you could win, at least, the second pot
 
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A bubble is a situation in a tournament when there is a folding place with any cards.
Especially against unknown opponents. Although, if you have 26 BB and you risk only a quarter of the stack, you can see the flop. But, if there is not a set - would it be worth it to pay? And the chance to get a set from the flop is relatively small.
 
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