Still Steaming - Should I have called?

[beggars]

This hand knocked me out of the $200K PP tourney last Saturday. We were down to about 450 players and I was a bit above the chip average.

Full table. Blinds are around 75/150.
I'm in the small blind with 3-4 OS.
One caller from mid-position.
I call the $75. Big blind checks.
Flop is 5-6-7. Two clubs.
I limp out with $150.
Big blind raises to $300 (as I'd hoped).
Other player folds.
I raise to $1000.
Big blind is all-in (he's the biggest stack but not very big. He's got me covered by a little bit).
I call.
Big blind shows 8-9 (the non-sucker straight).

Is there any way for me to get away from this hand? 8-4 and 8-9 beat me but there are so many other cards he could have been playing there. Big blind was good player though with no reason to push.

[slickterp]

if he was a good player w/ no reason to push, then it should make huge alarms go off in your head when he does.

[gcoutu]

Only way to avoid this is to fold those hands in sb. if bb hand then no way and just bad luck. I no longer complete and hope for a great flop with garbage out of sb cause situtions like that happen more often than me getting paid off. I think you fold 34 in sb and save the 75 chips or entire stack as it turns out.

[beggars]

Great point.

[gergery]

I wouldn’t have called with 43o (do a search on a thread that AnnieDuke posted in called “How to play the bitch straight” for why).

But once you got that flop you’re committed.