A new poster in the forum posted his hand (below) which you can see. He basically wanted to know what went wrong but was focusing on his opponents flush draw, rather than his own play. This is my response to his poker tournament strategy-

Turtleknife says: No problem post-flop, big problem with the EP baby raise pre-flop. You mathematically invited hands that will have hit this flop or a draw. I might call preflop if I was a super short stack and wanted the risk reward of quadrupling or being knocked out. But you had a GREEN stack and then you were forced to play a huge pot with another GREEN stack. The fact that you were miles ahead, doesn't eliminate the possibility of getting outdrawn.

You have to keep in mind that most of the players in the DD attain big stacks by getting it all in behind, many times. Given the way you played this hand, you are likely amongst those players as well. It's like survival of the monkeys. The luckiest ones will emerge from the middles stages with a good chip stack. The toughest part of that strategy is knowing when to inject some pot control into your strategy. By min-raising here, your pot control game needs some reworking as well as perhaps some strategic thinking.

-----Original post of player in Daily Double Poker Tournament on Full Tilt Poker-----

Hey, this is my first post so i'll try to give as much information as possible to what happened. I'm really trying to figure out if i made the right decision, because it's killing me .
Tournament: FT daily dollar
Blinds: 1200/2400 ante: 250

This is the poker tournament strategy hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4872773

My stack: 115,000
Big stack on table: 185,000
Avg: 60,000

I'm on the button and i'm dealt pocket 8's, a 2x bb raise comes to me and i reraise to make it 3x the BB. Two other players called
My hole cards: 8d 8s
The flop is: 8h 7h 2c

From this point, the other player in the pot was the big stack on the table, and he instant pushed all in. My read on this guy so far was that he was pretty loose and aggressive, and the pot was at a reasonable size to take down for him. I thought I had this guy absolutely dominated, maybe he was a bit passive on AK or pocket pairs J-A. I took a second to think about it, and I decided to call with the best possible hand given the flop. I didn't think someone would push with a flush draw, but he turned over 10 H j H with a flush draw

street: 5 s
river: 6 h

Given my position in the tournament i thought that it was a perfect play to put me in position for the final table ( putting me well over 250,000 chips), but i guess someone wanted to play a flush/straight draw.

I need some outsider's opinions on what they would of done in my position or in the other guys position.


*********** some of my info was wrong, here is the hand played out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4872773