33 - strange 77 line (for me)

[schwza]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 (t2105)
MP3 (t1155)
CO (t1540)
Button (t700)
Hero (t1235)
BB (t3440)
UTG (t755)
UTG+1 (t4240)
MP1 (t920)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t70</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, Hero calls t60, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: (t160) 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 8/images/graemlins/club.gif, 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets t150</font>, Hero calls t150.

Turn: (t460) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t260</font>,

[downtown]

1) what is with the chipstacks? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

2) I think my typical line would be to fold this preflop unless there were 1 or 2 callers, and I could call for set value. But you did say strange line, so let's play it assuming that we called.

In this case, it's a great flop for us unnless we're up against an overpair, which is a distinct possibility. To find out where we're at, and if you still don't want to dump it, or if you have some kind of read, why not just c/r the flop? If you c/r to t350* I think it looks scarier to the opponent than leading the turn and it has the added benefit of not letting AK/overcards see another card and it costs you less.

*I am still confused about the chipstacks though, which I think affects this decision and how much to raise, so I'll leave my analysis here for now.

[schwza]

crap, sorry. this is a mtt hand. i'll move it.

mods, if you could delete this thread, i'd appreciate it.

[downtown]

AH, I thought I'd lost my mind! (but I'm still ok... for now...)