Tricky Wsop Situation

[abruptor 0]

A hand a guy that played last years WSOP told me about.The guy had about 60k and the average stack was just below 100k. To the right of him he had the chip leader of the tournament. 3 players more had to go before the field was "in the money". The blinds were at 2-4k with an ante of 500. In this particular hand “our” guy was sitting in the BB. Everybody folds to the small blind (the chip leader), he doubles our heroes blind (to 8k).Our guy has 8-8 in the pocket and chooses to call. The flop is 9-6-5 (two spades). Our guy has no spades. The chip leader who has been bullying the table for quite a while bets 10k, our guy thinks a while and calls. Turn is 2 of hearts, the chip leader moves all-in. Our guy has 40k left. Questions: 1. Is his pre-flop move correct? 2. Is he correct in calling on the flop? 3. What should he do now?

[zipper 0]

He needed to re-raise pre flop. The SB is very agressive and bullying the table and he has a strong hand. He needs to find out where he stands. if reraised he can fold and save chips. But he should have been the agressor in this hand.

[gobears 0]

If the table is full (10-handed), then your friend's M is at 5.5 (danger zone). The aggressive play would be to jam with your 8's - you can really hurt the SB's stack and he should only call if he has something. The passive play would be to just call and react to that flop. With Villain's bet of 10K postflop, that puts 31K in the pot. Calling is out of the question postflop due to your stack size - it's either jam/fold at that point. If you jam, villain is getting 2-1 on the call. I would probably fold as I didn't hit the set and only three more players need to go out before I make $10K+ which is significant.

[XXEddie 0]

If the table is full (10-handed), then your friend's M is at 5.5 (danger zone). The aggressive play would be to jam with your 8's - you can really hurt the SB's stack and he should only call if he has something. The passive play would be to just call and react to that flop. With Villain's bet of 10K postflop, that puts 31K in the pot. Calling is out of the question postflop due to your stack size - it's either jam/fold at that point. If you jam, villain is getting 2-1 on the call. I would probably fold as I didn't hit the set and only three more players need to go out before I make $10K+ which is significant.

great do excatly what the SB wants you to thinkAll in preflop

[iggymcfly 0]

You definitely have to push this preflop from the BB. The number of weak-tight passive players that play WSOP-level tournaments amazes me.