Re: i made a move good play?
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Understandable kenny, but you contradicted yourself. You said that he can hang around a few more orbits and try to wait for a good hand, 'but that isnt coming' or something like that. If he is able to fold to a reraise/shove, how will he possibly have enough chips now that he's lost 1/4th of his stack? I think a complete is a much better play if you choose to play this. Any king or ace has you preflop and most likely with then have you postflop unless you hit/draw to a flush or hit a queen. Just such a dangerous hand to play OOP unless you hit hard.
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He's not raising based on the strength of his hand.
UTG can be limping 22-77, 9Ts, JQs, etc and if MP2 held anything capable of calling hero's extremely-strong-looking raise he'd be raising himself to isolate UTG.
The idea is that it looks so strong it's going to be taken down PF, and if called hero still gets to see the flop.
Also nobody's restealing at this point except possibly BB.
This is referred to as "punishing limpers", "playing poker", "making a move"...
In addition, OP can give up on the flop and be in much the same position as he is now. OP can afford to make moves at this point (and absolutely should be).
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