Re: Which is the worst play here
UTG's raise is pretty awful. He shouldn't tangle with the big stacks. But I think BB played the hand worst. He played very passively. If he's going to be loose enough to stack off on a flop like that, then he'd be better off reraising preflop or check raising allin on the flop. That halfpot bet out doesn't solve anything.
Actually, I don't mind basically any line for BB other than the one he took. If UTG is LAG, then coming over the top preflop or on the flop is ok. If UTG is a more careful player then he should have a solid hand here, so out of position you need to either fold preflop or play for set value and check fold the flop.
I think both players played too loosely, which when you look at the result (two players with 20BB both stacking off with small pairs when there are two 4-6 BB stacks) isn't surprising.
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