Help, flop midpair against bigstack bully in Sun Millions
 

How poorly did I play this? Should I have pushed pf to isolate? I've been playing very tentatively in the last hour because I hit a cold deck (getting blinded down from 60k to 44k) and had just doubled up less than 10 hands ago.

In retrospect, I should have minraised it pf to at least take away some of the BB's odds for calling this.

My question is, how normal/correct is this play postflop where he's cbetting like that on a draw when there's 1 guy all in already.

PokerStars Game #13326935350: Tournament #66640473 $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (2000/4000) - 2007/11/18 - 20:36:39 (ET)
Table '66640473 23' 9-max Seat #8 is the button pokerhand.org hand converter

BB (t149403)
UTG (t14905)
UTG+1 (t90334)
MP1 (t53269)
MP2 (t20406)
CO (t44026)
Button (t35560)
Hero (t87308)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t20006</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls t18006, BB calls t16006.

Flop: (t56818) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets t12000</font>, Hero calls t12000.

Turn: (t80818) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets t12000</font>, Hero folds.

River: (t92818) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t92818

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
BB has Kd Jh (one pair, eights).
MP2 has 5h 5s (two pair, eights and fives).
Outcome: BB wins t80818. MP2 wins t12000. </font>

Re: Help, flop midpair against bigstack bully in Sun Millions
 

no, you shouldn't push preflop. your kicker is too weak.
you shouldn't miniraise either. you're out of position and folding to a push.
call that flop and you're committed. check-raise the continuation bet. all in.

Re: Help, flop midpair against bigstack bully in Sun Millions
 

Shove preflop. As played, bet the flop- although its hard to bet without commiting yourself. Meh, maybe bet 15kish then fold to a reraise.