Good Spot For A Stop And Go?

[wwmoon85 0]

Sorry I dont have the hand history for this.HERO ($1100)VILLIAN (Around $2000)And 4 other players, cant really recount their stack sizesBlinds (75/150)Dealt to Hero in BB [ A 7 ]Villian is on the ButtonIt folds to villain who makes a standard raise to 450.SB foldsNow I dont have too much of a read on the villain, my notes on him are: he's a slowplayer (checked trips on flop down to the river) and he usually lets go of mediocre hands to a big bet on the river (or maybe he just chases a lot). Anyway, my chip stack is gettin pretty low here (M of around 5) so I need to make some kind of move soon. I thought that this might be a good spot for a stop and go.I call 300 (my stack is now $650)Flop: 8 5 2 HERO goes all in for ($650)Thoughts??I figure he cant really call without some kind of hand since it would be for more than 40% of his stack, and the flop texture seems good, chances are he missed it.Oh yea and also, I havent really done anything out of line at this table...Ive pretty much been solid and showed down some good hands.

[Petoria 0]

I've called off my whole stack with AK high when i suspected a stop n go. I really dont think you have enough chips to make any reasonable opponent fold. If you had more like 1500, then you can maybe price him out.

[Rocketwadster 0]

With your chip stack size and that flop, that is an absolutely terrible spot for a stop and go (I know that when you decide for a stop and go you are supposed to go through with it regardless of the flop, however....).With your chip stack, you need to either push pre-flop, or fold. I've folded many a bad ace in that spot (Harrington says Ace 8 is the cutoff)...

[shpaget 0]

You're giving him almost 3:1 for two cards.That's ugly.If he has any brains in his head he knows that THAT flop probably hit you just as hard as it hit him...and I think a lot of players would smell a stop'n'go here.As stated by Petoria, I too have called off my entire stack from the button with AK, AQ, AJ when I suspected a stop'n'go.In fact, this is the perfect place to go all in when you catch any piece of the flop (or at least a good draw) because a lot of people will put you on nothing and call with AK.Yeah, you'll get Kx and Qx to fold, but you're beating them anyway.I'd push pf if he's been stealing a lot of blinds...otherwise I fold.

[wwmoon85 0]

ya i suppose i needed a bigger chip stack for this to work in this spot...probably shouldve just pushed all in pf IF i was going to play it...lol, my initial reaction was to fold and find a better spot to go all in but then i was like hmmm. I dunno, I just figured that the villain would lay down most hands he'd be raising on the button here, even if he suspected a stop and go.