$3.40 NLHE STT: 77 on a 888 board

[FastandFurious]

poker stars No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15.00/t30.00 Blinds - 8 players - View hand 1245120
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UTG: t2280.00 76 BBs - VPIP: 50, PFR: 17, 3B: 0, AF: 2.6, hands: 42
Hero (UTG+1): t1535.00 51.17 BBs - VPIP: 15, PFR: 12, 3B: 5, AF: 3.2, Hands: 116492
MP1: t1215.00 40.50 BBs - VPIP: 57, PFR: 4, 3B: 0, AF: 1.5, Hands: 23
MP2: t1475.00 49.17 BBs - VPIP: 31, PFR: 2, 3B: 0, AF: 2.3, Hands: 273
CO: t1380.00 46 BBs - VPIP: 26, PFR: 19, 3B: 3, AF: 5.7, Hands: 374
BTN: t1270.00 42.33 BBs - VPIP: 20, PFR: 12, 3B: 0, AF: Infinity, Hands: 59
SB: t1930.00 64.33 BBs - VPIP: 14, PFR: 10, 3B: 0, AF: 1.8, Hands: 315
BB: t2415.00 80.50 BBs - VPIP: 24, PFR: 9, 3B: 0, AF: 2.3, Hands: 68

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is UTG+1 with 7 :diamond: 7 :spade:
UTG calls t30, Hero calls t30, MP1 calls t30, 2 folds, BTN calls t30, 1 fold, BB checks

Flop: (t165) 8 :diamond: 8 :spade: 8 :heart: (5 players)
BB bets t60.00, UTG folds, Hero calls t60, MP1 raises to t270, BTN folds, BB calls t210, Hero folds

I think with 88 or 99+ I would have played it more aggressively but don't know with 77? How would you have played this hand?

 

[jbbb]

IMO the only hand that beats you is 99. TT+ is probably raised pre depending on players passiveness. His range for a raise is so wide could be overs, smaller pairs etc. You don't want to see another card though so i'd ship it, leaving you with ~35BB if called and loose.
In this buyin, flopping quads goes check, check, check. so you could reasonable put BB on overs/air and MP1 on overs/smaller PP.

 

[sryImPro]

it's allways a wierd situation to hit a flop like that :/...if there was just one guy in the game i would call any raise even all in...but 2 guys...i would fold there...

 

[baudib1]

folding

 

[DetroitJimmy]

I wouldn't have played it any. This is one of the rare occasions where I like to limp most of the time. I don't like to raise smaller pairs UTG early. Better to limp/min-raise and get as many callers as you can to set mine. Reason I don't raise that often is I hate folding to 3 bet and am not gonna flat OOP. Anyway this part is fine.

As for what to do on flop I woulda played that the same too. You are WA/WB here and calling the first small bet was okay IMO. Then after the re-raise I like the fold too. No sense in taking a chance on going out this early with marginal hand.

So all in all looks pretty standard to me.

 

[Riemannian man]

I like folding here. You were set mining, didn't hit it and then saw a bet/raise by villains, that normally enough for me to toss it in this early on.

 

[OzExorcist]

I'm with jbbb on this one - the vast majority of players at these stakes will slowplay a genuine monster so given the action we're rarely seeing either villain turn up with quads here. Big pairs (QQ+ and probably down to TT+) probably would have raised preflop too.

So while I'll probably look stupid the times we run into a bigger pair that limped preflop I think I get this in. Sometimes we'll fold both villains out, sometimes we'll get them to call with a smaller boat or even something like AT and we avoid the difficulty of having to hate pretty much all turn cards between a nine and an ace. The only thing that gives me pause is that it's not all that big a pot to win right now - but I like when we get called by worse and I think most lower boats call us because it's a low stakes game and LOL full houses are unfoldable. Even better if we get called by Ax hands as well, which will happen some of the time.

Set mine is fine at these stakes / blinds preflop BTW.

 

[aaron_jd]

I'd also fold here. Too wide a range of hands.

 

[OzExorcist]

A question for those folding:

What range, exactly, are you putting our villains on?

 

[DetroitJimmy]

I put him on I didn't hit my set and it's to early to go out range. For real he prolly has 22-TT or two overs. We are prolly ahead of his range but at this level I would just rather run away to fight another day.

I think since we didn't raise pre-flop and didn't hit set post-flop and not so many chips invested we can let this go. Plenty of time to steal/re-steal during mid/late game to take a chance on going out this early.

 

[Tangerine 53]

Did you consider raising the BBflop bet of like MP1 did? Like others have said the only likely hand that would probably have flatted pre flop that beats you at present is 99 (poss TT also) so I would consider the raise like MP1 did to find out where I was and make people pay for calling with their overcards.

Clearly then if you get a caller it's tread very carefully time and we fold to a raise but with that flop there is a high probability that you are the best hand at that time but vulnerable to the overcards.