I rarely use stop and gos...good time for it?

20+2 at Stars, close to 700 started. Down to final 11. Blinds are 4k/8k with 300 ante. I'm in 9th.

2 folds, good taggish player opens for 24k, folds to me in the BB w/44, I have 78k before posting the BB, he has me covered. I call here. His read on me at the moment is probably that I don't defend my BB enough and am pretty tight.

Flop is 882r
I push for ~54k....good stuff?

[ansky451]

Good spot. You don't have very much fold equity with a PF push.

When you are doing a stop and go, make sure you push ANY flop (unless you hit a set). If it comes A high don't pussy out.

I like it.

[surfinillini]

Nice...

you might even get an A high to call you here, looking goot.

In that situation it seems like you're really pushing just to protect your hand on a board that probably missed the other player more than attempting a stop and go. Stop and go's involve you choosing to go all in on any flop BEFORE the flop.

Also, the stop and go's most valuable purpose is to push hands that are better than yours out on a flop that missed them, and in this situation it is almost certain that you will get called by any higher pair, which are what beat you, and maybe get a fold from the hands you are ahead of, which are overcards.

[ActionBob]

Well, this turned into what ended up being a stop and go. But I get the sense from your post it just worked out this way and wasn't really planned (although I could certainly be wrong). A stop and go is a planned move when your hand is too strong to fold given the situation but you don't want to push preflop if your opponent can't fold. In your typical stop and go situation you are committing yourself to jamming any flop regardless of what comes.

-ActionBob