Hand from Daily Dollar on FTP

Opp was playing super big stack poker, raising almost every hand and betting every street. I realize I probably should have shoved pre flop, but wondering what everyone's opinion is of what to do with the flop action.


Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 20/40 Blinds (9 handed) - Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB (t2960)
BB (t3195)
UTG (t2605)
UTG+1 (t3845)
MP1 (t2865)
MP2 (t20325)
Hero (MP3) (t3545)
CO (t1175)
Button (t4145)

Hero's M: 59.08

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 8, 8
3 folds, MP2 bets t440, Hero calls t440, 2 folds, SB calls t420, 1 fold

Flop: (t1360) 5, Q, 3 (3 players)
SB checks, MP2 bets t1360, [color=#CC3333]Hero ???

go all in

Was he normally making opens >10x preflop and how often was he betting pot on the flop?

There's not a lot of merit discussing postflop because like you already said, your mistake was preflop. Flatting >10% of your stack with a midpair is going to result in a lot of difficult spots like this one. I also wouldn't be shocked to see the pot get multiway fairly often like it did here, since people in $1 MTTs don't fold ever.

As played I lean towards folding mainly because theres still another person in the pot and I don't know exactly how often he was using those sizings

id shove preflop. to exploit him 10x opening preflop. Id just fold flop as played (obv having more reads really helps this decision out which is tough to have early in MTTs)