The hand that was my downfall.

[Caruso329]

Playing in a weekly bar tournament. $10+5 buy-in, only first gets paid unless second wants to split (very likely). 33 people in means $330 to the winner.

It's down to 5-handed. Blinds are 800/1600 and go up to 1600/3200 next hand (yea, dumbass structure)
112,000 chips on the table.
Stacks are estimated at:

SB (10,000)
BB (40,000)
UTG (18,000)
HERO (21,000)
CO (4,000)
BUTTON (25,000)

The whole table is a bunch of loose gamblers, but play has tightened up somewhat with the increase of the blinds.
Hero is in MP with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
SB posts (800), BB posts (1600), UTG calls (1600), Hero raises (6600), CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls (5000).

Pot (15600)
Flop: K/images/graemlins/heart.gif A/images/graemlins/spade.gif 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif
UTG bets (2000), Hero calls (2000).

Pot (19600)
Turn: 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif
UTG goes all-in (9100), Hero calls (9100).

Pot (37800)
River: 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif

Any ace was possible with UTG. I called thinking he held one and was trying to bully me off a split, or had a high pp like 10s-Qs and was trying to bluff me out.

[Pitr]

As a side note, I hope that buyin either comes with free drinks or something or is supposed to be .5 - a 50% tournament fee?

And, incidently, it's rather difficult to critique your play without knowing what your hand was.

[Caruso329]

rofl.. yea that would help wouldn't it? I'll edit but it was A/images/graemlins/heart.gif J/images/graemlins/heart.gif

The extra $5 is to pay the dealers. If the game weren't so juicy I'd complain about it.

[Pitr]

I'd have pushed back postflop, but then in this case that would have just gotten me in more trouble. Did he have the 8, pocket Ks, or what?

[Caruso329]

I'll wait for a few more replies before I post results. I want to hear some more unbiased opinions. I do agree, raising on the flop would have let me known where I stand, but it still would've been a tough laydown that I don't think I could've made.

[mikeyworm]

looks like UTG had about 10K on the flop. I think you have to push over his flop bet. 5 handed in a looseish game you can only worry about 8s, K8 or A8 here. your hand is good against anything else that gets played like that preflop. it's a push no question.

[Caruso329]

Well I thought I'd get a few more replies, but anyways. He had A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif for the turned boat. I called him almost instantaneously when he said all-in and he got this sour look on his face. I suppose he thought I was the one with Aces, or Kings. His face actually made me feel better, until I saw his cards and was drawing to one out.