Make a move?

[rookieplus]

UB 50+5, 7500 guaranteed

Doing well, about 60 players left, 20 pay. Checkgirl is tight and moderately weak.


Hand #4408346-107 at Sat7pmA-006 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
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Started at 12/Feb/05 20:37:57

supercuda is at seat 0 with 8865.
Dilldough is at seat 1 with 2470.
HERO is at seat 2 with 7205.
IdlTrainer is at seat 3 with 830.
checkgirl is at seat 4 with 6250.
Acesn888 is at seat 5 with 3740.
PATCHEYE is at seat 6 with 7660.
Davidlmu is at seat 7 with 4345.
ctuna is at seat 8 with 2265.
Mo Money 56 is at seat 9 with 12330.
The button is at seat 4.

Acesn888 posts the small blind of 100.
PATCHEYE posts the big blind of 200.

supercuda: -- --
Dilldough: -- --
HERO: 8s 8c
IdlTrainer: -- --
checkgirl: -- --
Acesn888: -- --
PATCHEYE: -- --
Davidlmu: -- --
ctuna: -- --
Mo Money 56: -- --

Pre-flop:

Davidlmu folds. ctuna folds. Mo Money 56 folds.
supercuda folds. Dilldough folds. HERO raises to
900. IdlTrainer folds. checkgirl calls. Acesn888
folds. PATCHEYE folds.

Flop (board: 3s 5s 2s):

HERO checks. checkgirl bets 200. HERO calls.


Turn (board: 3s 5s 2s 7h):

HERO checks. checkgirl checks.

River (board: 3s 5s 2s 7h Qc):

HERO checks. checkgirl bets 2500. HERO?

[suited_ace]

Folds. Shouldn't have given her the free card. You said it yourself, Checkgirl is tight and moderately weak. She's betting 1/3 of her stack. You have a pair of 8s.

[rookieplus]

I probably should have added that I had played very few hands and showed down only premium hands.

I pushed and she folded. I showed 88 and she got very upset like she may have tossed an overpair.

This play (something I never would have done a few months ago) seems to work very well in MTT's. Obviously you have to be very careful, but some people play so tight and see monsters when you push over the top that they frequently fold an unimproved hand. When she called my preflop raise I figured her for a decent but not premium pair (I doubted she would have called with suited cards except for As Ks and if she didn't have those, she might have put me on them).

Factors that made me think it would work - somewhat weak opponent, my tight tale image, low card flop. No raise from her preflop led me to believe that she didn't have KK or AA. To be honest, I thought my cards were irrelevant and I think (I wonder if I would have had the cojones) I might have made this play with any two.

The more I play MTT's (I am by no means a seasoned veteran) it almost seems a requirement to a decent finish that you have to make a play like this once or twice; cards don't come fast enough relative to the blinds.