Folding pocket 8s on the flop, good or bad play?

[GRETZKY427]

Full Tilt Poker Game #20216861373: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (155241487), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:34:10 ET - 2010/04/20
Seat 1: Xerozzo (2,090), is sitting out
Seat 2: CallmeAce21 (2,545)
Seat 3: Tipatun (1,380)
Seat 4: zymantukas (560)
Seat 5: GRETZKY427 (1,455)
Seat 6: vmzmod (1,435)
Seat 8: shameless83 (2,580)
Seat 9: penepene (1,455)
zymantukas posts the small blind of 20
GRETZKY427 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GRETZKY427 [8h 8d]
Xerozzo has returned
vmzmod calls 40
shameless83 folds
penepene folds
Xerozzo has 15 seconds left to act
Xerozzo folds
CallmeAce21 raises to 120
Tipatun folds
zymantukas has 15 seconds left to act
zymantukas raises to 560, and is all in
GRETZKY427 calls 520
vmzmod folds
CallmeAce21 has 15 seconds left to act
CallmeAce21 calls 440
*** FLOP *** [7s 2s Ad]
GRETZKY427 checks
CallmeAce21 bets 420
GRETZKY427 folds
CallmeAce21 shows [Qh Ac]
zymantukas shows [6h Ah]
Uncalled bet of 420 returned to CallmeAce21
*** TURN *** [7s 2s Ad] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [7s 2s Ad 3c] [As]
CallmeAce21 shows three of a kind, Aces
zymantukas shows three of a kind, Aces
CallmeAce21 wins the pot (1,720) with three of a kind, Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,720 | Rake 0
Board: [7s 2s Ad 3c As]
Seat 1: Xerozzo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: CallmeAce21 showed [Qh Ac] and won (1,720) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 3: Tipatun (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: zymantukas (small blind) showed [6h Ah] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 5: GRETZKY427 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: vmzmod folded before the Flop
Seat 8: shameless83 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: penepene didn't bet (folded)

I was faced with a call to an all in call, i called with my pocket 8s but with the flop coming 72A i folded my pocket pair...if i reshoved my stack all in could have i got the AQ player to fold?

Players on my table were giving me stick saying i should have reshoved all in to get the third opponent (AQ) to fold, but with two aces on the board this was a great fold by me...

[TurnRiva]

Flatting pre is bad, Jam or fold.

[Murphmaester]

I know you have been told to stop posting results before, so am unsure as to what part of that request you are having trouble understanding. You need to learn that results are absolutely irrelevant to the question of whether a hand is played correctly or not. Any idiot can luck the river but they believe that justifies their play during the hand they they will always remain a losing player.

As for this...

Players on my table were giving me stick saying i should have reshoved all in to get the third opponent (AQ) to fold, but with two aces on the board this was a great fold by me...

A - When you folded there was only one A on the board.

B - As above, what is on the board means nothing unless you are basing your decisions on what you think the villains hold in their hands. What else affected your decision to make this fold?


After putting a 1/3 of your stack in pre flop what was your plan for the flop? Was it always to fold if any overcards came on the flop? or just Aces? From what I can tell the villain made a standard cbet, with a shortstack already all-in and you folded. He could very easily have been doing this with nothing.

To be honest folding your pocket 8's after the flop was indeed a big mistake, you should have folded them pre flop, calling a 13xBB 4bet with anything less than KK this early in a tourny is pretty awful IMO. You created your own problems by calling a large re-raise with a mediocre hand and no plan whatsoever for the rest of the hand.

If you had a read and suspected the all-in reraise was doing this light and wanted a gamble then at the very least you should be thinking about shoving over the top pre. This way you have fold equity and could get the original raiser to lay down his hand - then you can race heads up with someone who will not bust you should you lose.

[GRETZKY427]

Cheers guys.