Pocket 8's

[Indestructable]

In a ten player STT and apart from one knocked out (which doubled up the player now on the dealer button), the rest of the players including you are around your starting chip position of 5000 chips.
Blinds 200/400
First to act folds
Second to act raises to 1200
You are next with
 
What would you normally do?

[sharpy]

 At this stage of a STT I would seriusly consider a fold.If you flat call you are just wasting chips unless you hit a set,because you will have to fold to any bet if the flop contains overcards.If you raise it would have to be all-in,and I wouldn't fancy racing for my stack at this stage also there are still 4 to act and the blinds too.
No this is a fold for me

[boldie]

fold for me I'm not calling off 25% of my stack hoping to hit a set here.

[GlasgowBandit]

Deffo fold for me.  Even if I am in position here am still folding.

[Longy]

Calling is horrible, there is no way you can play for set value and you are going to hate most flops.

So a read would be good on villan, as against a tight player this is a fold and against a loose player this is a push. Meh i fold readless i think, i would shove 9's tho its borderline.

Good question.

[temp0r]

LOLZ @ this thread. it's such a blatant fold it hurts.

[Longy]

LOLZ @ this thread. it's such a blatant fold it hurts.

If our raisor had open pushed calling this with 88 is break even against a range (55+,a9+,kj+) this doesn't take into account the fold equity we have here which is not massive but significant enough to change the maths of it all.

I maintain this is marginal situation and if you are pushing alot tighter than 88 here you are burning money.

[Indestructable]

This situation actually happened to me twice yesterday when playing in live satelites for a tourney.
In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it.
In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push. The raiser calls with
 
And an ace and  a ten comes on the flop and out I go.

Where's that photo of a 50p piece. 

[temp0r]

In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it.
In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push.

thank heavens there's poker players who think like you.

[boldie]

In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it.
In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push.

thank heavens there's poker players who think like you.

lol yeah...I know two others..I call them "Bread" and "Butter"

[Indestructable]