Played like a Plonker?

[HoldingFolding]

Button's aggressive and has been stealing a lot. SB is weak tight.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (4 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t3260)
SB (t1530)
Hero (t1220)
UTG (t1990)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t300, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t900) 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero ????

[HoldingFolding]

Anyway I checked, Button bets 300, SB folds, Hero ????

[valenzuela]

ur shorty, u have 4x the BB, and u have A7. I push EDIT: add an unraised pot to that.

[Phil Van Sexton]

I push on this flop.

[valenzuela]

why not preflop???

[wuwei]

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I push on this flop.

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And I consider pushing preflop based on my read of the button. If he had been stealing a lot like you said and this was his first open limp, then I would not. If I think I have a decent amount of FE, I push.

[Phil Van Sexton]

If I push preflop, the big stack needs to call 900 more with an 1800 pot. He's getting 2:1.

It's not the worst idea I've heard, but I'd rather see the flop and push if it's checked to me (unless it's something horrible like KQx).

[The Yugoslavian]

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If I push preflop, the big stack needs to call 900 more with an 1800 pot. He's getting 2:1.

It's not the worst idea I've heard, but I'd rather see the flop and push if it's checked to me (unless it's something horrible like KQx).

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Bingo.

Although I like just pushing pre-flop if you think your opponent is one who will be capable of pushing any flop on you or has shown a propensity to limp weakly and back down despite any sort of pot odds.

The move I choose is based primarily on what kind of opponent I think I'm up against.

Yugoslav

[HoldingFolding]

That's what's great about these forums. It's only when you actually go back and look at a hand that you realise how badly you played it and learn. The fact that he didn't raise pre-flop to me meant he had a weak hand (I don't think he would have played a monster this way). I think raising all in would have got him off the hand and if it didn't I would have expected him to turn over any two cards and I'd be in very reasonable shape.

I don't think the bet means anything, wouldn't surprise me if he had 7x as well. At this point, I did another stupid thing and called, hoping, I suppose, for an A or a 6. Turn was a T. I checked and folded to another 300 bet - weak, very weak.