Your Thoughts On This Hand - Opp. River Bets All In

[FakeKramer]

$20 tournament on Stars. No read worth mentioning on villan. 880 started, 300 are left. Average stack roughly 4,000. What should I have done here? Why? Where did I play the hand bad? What did he have?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (9 handed) converter

UTG (t1270)
UTG+1 (t2495)
MP1 (t10660)
MP2 (t2555)
MP3 (t830)
CO (Villan)/ (t2635)
Button (t3550)
SB (t3880)
Hero (t3910)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t150, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, CO (Villan)/ calls t150, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t600) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t450</font>, MP1 folds, Villan calls t450, SB folds.

Turn: (t1500) 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t850</font>, Villan calls t850.

River: (t3200) 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Villan bets t1185 (All-In)</font>

check turn
If you`ve been this aggressive with draws all tourney, its no wonder he`s calling you down on that flop.

[nath]

I have no idea and neither do you because you never gave him a chance to give you information. You built a huge pot out of position without any information on your opponent's holding.
In this situation I would suggest checking the turn, to keep it small and let you see how he reacts. Lead the river if he checks behind. I would call a reasonable turn bet and possibly lead the river depending on what comes.

To answer your question: You are getting 3-1 to call, so if there's a reasonable chance he's on a busted flush, you should. Honestly, with no read I don't know what he has. My best reasoning suggests he would raise a set on a draw-heavy board; he probably doesn't call bottom pair twice (unless he has a good redraw like Ah2h). I think a lone four, five, seven, or other PP would be happy to check behind and show it down. A busted draw might bluff.

After reasoning it out there, getting 3 to 1, I probably call knowing there's a good chance I lose. Still, the odds are favorable, there is a substantial possibility he's on a bluff, and at this stage, 2500 isn't a great spot to be in relative to 1500. I'd rather shoot for the 7k stack so I'm comfortable for a while and I can bully around the table if MP1 is not in the hand.

Boy, I wish I had the time to reason through hands that well when I was actually faced with decisions. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]