[reallybigshoe]

The situation:

NL PP Tourney, 370 entrants, down to last 70 or so, top 40 get paid (It's a rebuy/add-on deal, so the prize pool makes for a decent 6x payday just for finishing in the money if you don't rebuy yourself, which i don't)

Table is seven-handed temporarily. Blinds 300/600
Folds to Villain (14000 chips) in MP, who limps; fold, fold
Hero (10000 chips) is on the button with A-10 off, raises to 2000
-Blinds fold, Villain calls

Pot now 4900

Flop comes QQ8 rainbow

Villain now does his usual thing, a minimum bet into a huge pot

Hero raises to 1800, Villain calls,

Turn no help, Villain makes another min. bet, Hero calls (huge pot odds)

River no help, Villain bets 1500, Hero gets sickeningly weak-tight and folds

Okay, I deserve to be picked apart on this one. But this guy had been doing the same min. bet thing for two hours, often folding to raises but sometimes not, occasionly showing down with A high-- total LP image.

Also, I had busted him earlier when he re-raised in the small blind my 3BB early position bet with KK. I put him all-in and he called with AJ suited (so obviously his game had flaws as well)

Should I have pushed the flop to his min. bet, considering his PF limp and table image suggested Ax, KJ, low pairs, etc? (put some Fold Equity in play)

How do you play against this type of creature?

Since this hand cost me the tourney for all intents and purposes, I would appreciate any construcive criticism in order to avoid spewing chips this massively in the future.