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Is this the worst play ever by me (hero)?  A few things to bear in mind -

- I'm the shortstack here at a relatively late stage of the Sit & Go and, though it's a min bet each time, it actually accumulates to = nearly half my original stack
- How do you rate the flat call to the min-raise preflop?
- Villain is an EXTREMELY strange player, a calling station who has a tendency to lead out post flop with pot sized bets
- Villain has occasionally been caught playing big hands overly slowly


***** Poker Hand History for Game 329245377 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee, Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante)) - Wednesday, March 19, 18:19:37 GMT 2008
$10+$1 NL Holdem #1632001
Table 1 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 3
Seat 2: Villain ( 4,105 )
Seat 4: Hero ( 2,150 )
Seat 5: bushdoc ( 2,745 )
Tourney Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante))
Villain posts small blind [100]
Hero posts big blind [200]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 8s, 2s ]
bushdoc folds
Villain raises to [400]
Hero calls [200]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, 2c, Kc ]
Villain bets [200]
Hero calls [200]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
Villain bets [200]
Hero calls [200]
** Dealing River ** [ 4d ]
Villain bets [200]
Hero calls [200]
** Showdown **

Anyway, let me know your thoughts.  Showdown to follow depending on demand.

Cheers,

Ollie

he had something like 88 or JJ isn't ir ?

whatever he had, Ithink that you may fold on the river... you only had bottom pair...

im folding pre, im guessing you could shove if you think his min bet it just trying to take ure bb as cheaply as possible, usually not though, but as you said he is a calling station this would be a silly shove. i shoving quite ligh on the sb and dealer button instead. so basically im folding here pre

fold pre, postflop i actually like. But bear in mind i am a terrible player.

Fold pre flop - 10 x BB in a SNG equals push or fold time for me.

Totally agree with this and is one of the 2 or 3 simple rules to be comptent in sngs.

Post flop is fine, you are rarely good by the river but you don't have to be to make the call good.

move up pls.

lol

fold pre

post flop nothing wrong

maybe a push on flop

Fold all worse hands and get called by all better hands?

im confused to why people think the post flop play is ok!

nah he might fold a pair smaller than the king he could call with a club (ok your not in great shape against the flush draw and 2 overs to your pair its nearly a coin flip

yeah he is a calling station but even calling stations fold now and then

Villain's a calling station!? Hero calls pre,flop,turn and river!? LOL - You've also said he likes to play big hands slowly, which could be happening here with his sweetening bets.

For me it's a fold pre but if I'm playing it I'd rather push pre-flop (does a stop n go work here?). I don't really like calling off half my chips with bottom pair no kicker when I'm already short and no idea of where I am in the hand. He could have a medium pocket here a lot.

agree!!

Trust your gut and if it feels right chuck it all in, if not run away.

I call pre for one reason: I want a flush or 2 pair min.

I'm folding post flop.

I take the point about preflop - I should probably have folded, though he had been chucking out min raises very frequently preflop, so I thought his range might be quite wide and I could donk postflop (I turned out to be wrong about this). 

Postflop I just felt that, if Villain had a hand, the action would have sped up a lot considering our stack sizes in relation to the pot - but given that he had slowplayed big hands in this way before, I wanted to get to the showdown without committing my entire stack and show a hand which could beat the low end of his range (I took the high end to be a king, but this didn't seem likely).  I thought all the way through - 'he's min raising and min betting here, that shows very little strength doesn't it?'

Anyway, the showdown is as follows:

** Showdown **
Villain shows [ Jd, Ad ] high card Ace
Hero shows [ 8s, 2s ] a pair of Deuces
** Hand Conclusion **
Hero wins 2,000 from main pot with a pair of Deuces
************  Game 329245377 ends  ************

This really isn't a hidden brag or anything, because I think on the whole I lucked out after playing the hand quite strangely.

yeah but not as wide as 28 suited ;)

Shove or fold pre

Both of which are laughable odds for you to call with 11 BB's, fold or shove...