$109's... Mid pairs and I are having relationship problems

[bigt439]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (6 handed) converter

Hero (t1385)
UTG (t1627)
MP (t2565)
CO (t2363)
Button (t1140)
SB (t920)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t275</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>.

Final Pot: t425

If there is a part of my game that gives me difficulty, it is playing mid pairs. This is one of the situations that I'm unsure of. I don't really know what else I can do, but something about this feels wrong.

[lastchance]

In this spot, for all intents and purposes, 88 = somewhere between AQ and AJ type hand closer to AJ.

If you play 88 exactly like you play AJ here, you should be fine.

OOP at the $109's without reads coming from UTG raiser, I think I have to lay this down.

[vinyard]

Interesting. Not to hijack the thread too much but as somebody who will soon be moving back to 1000 chip games I wonder how you feel about 99-JJ.

I am thinking that barring a strong read on teh initial raiser I am playing JJ and TT back at him strong and laying down 99.