This O8 play cost me my stack

[knuteboy34]

I agree that it's a pretty awful hand to call pre-flop, but it was one of those sessions where I would seldom get a decent hand and when I did it would never work out. The table was very loose-aggresive with plenty of crappy hands taking down huge pots so I limped in with this hand hoping to see A-3 on the flop. Since I had two dueces I thought that it was less likely that my opponents would have A-2 and one mini-raise wasn't enough to get me to fold this marginal speculative hand. If the CO had PL raised I would've mucked it in a heartbeat.

Now I know this is less than optimal strategy. I was losing patience waiting for AK23ds A2QQs or even A310Js type hands to come along. My pre-flop decision was bad. What I was concerned with was my decisions after I had flopped the third best possible made hand vs. two players.

It was hard to give give the CO credit for having me beat because he was raising all the time. 90% of the time in these low limit games a pre-flop raise means A2xx or AAxx. Turns out he spiked a two-outer A on the turn to beat me. In hindsight I should've been more concerned about the guy who called in between us.