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EDIT: Since I considered the whole tourney a learning experience, I was honestly concerned about playing too passively so I decided to take a poke a stealing the pot. In retrospect probably not the best choice.

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Nah, I think it was a good idea, just unfortunate timing. I'd certainly been one of the more aggressive players at the table, and a lot of times you're going to end up stealing a pretty substantial pot this way.

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Why did you just choose to complete the SB (if you don't mind me asking)? I was folding to you SB raises pretty consistantly.

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That's true. Basically, I was trying to mix it up some. I didn't want to raise your blind every time, because then I'm likely to get played back at more. I had a hand where I wanted to see a flop but didn't want to play it if I got reraised after trying a steal raise. So I decided to limp and keep the pot small, in this instance. As a bonus, if I limp occasionally with mediocre holdings, it allows me to limp with good holdings and get more aggressive action, or at least so I like to think (how effective this is is pretty debatable, and it definitely relies on fairly observant opponents.)

As to the original hand, durron's suggestion is exactly what I did and for that reason. I threw out a bet of 1500, wyrm folded.