In a pstars tourney, and was down to the final two tables. It was a 5 table sng, with top 7 getting paid. 14 left.

I had been blinded down 1g in chips as I had a shower, and my 2nd hand back was in the BB. At this point I have 3550

Folded to SB, blinds 100/200 and he min raises to 400.

I have 22, and I feel like his min raise is a sign of weakness, So i put him to the test and raise to 2g. I wanted to represent a strong hand here, thus wanted to take this down at this spot. He flat calls.

Regardless of the results, In reterospect, I think I should have commited less chips than I orginally did, but my image up to that point was solid, as I had only shown over big hands when I had come in raising or re raised.

Anyways, I was wondering your thoughts on this play.

I think when you're right you win his 400 but when you're wrong you lose 2Gs, minimum. What's the plan if he goes all in? he might be short stacked and we have call (At this point his hand range is pretty tight). Other times when they have enough to push us out it could easily have been a coin flip. i expect AA and KK to smooth call here sometimes.

when I see people sit out for a while, the first hand they play is very bold Many times it's just done to win some antes and catch up a bit. Not that he was thinking along the same lines, but he didn't necessarily put you on a huge hand.

Any reason why you saw the min raise on the button as weakness?

The texture of the table had been a table of tighness and raising 3xthe BB, regardless of blinds.

There was one player however, who had consistently min bet preflop and shown over very strong holdings, and I had folded many times to his min raises in the BB.

I think it was simply a raise to say, "Im strong, and ready to commit", w/o actually doing the committing part. I think I shouldve gone maybe 3x his raise, to 1200, or just commit right there.

My thinking was if he does call, and its a unfavourable flop, I can use my position and go for my free card, maybe even inducing a bluff on the turn.

I also thought, if he misses (as he had about 1000 more than me), I could take this pot by moving in on it, and forcing him to make a gamble for a large % of his chips.

Instead, he did the moving in on a KK4 flop, which put it at a coinflip AGAIN. I called after some hesitation, as I still had chips to work with, if I decided to make the fold.

Flat call and fold if you dont hit a set. Alternatively push.

2s are 50:50 vs a random hand, and a min-raise should make his hand better than random. Unless you hit the set, whether you are in or out of position, you are going to have no clue where you stand with them.

If youre dying to play the hand then push. That gives you folding equity on top of a coin flip...as long as he doesnt have a pair...and the push could even force out pairs below 7.

This is good advice. In this specific spot, I lean towards a push. He's hoping you've already checked the "Fold" button so he makes a min raise. Any other "correct" raise basically commits you to the pot so push.

Why can't we raise it to $1000, and see how the SB reacts? Your not commited and neither is the SB. With this raise we can easily fold to a reraise, and the SB can still fold if he thinks he is beaten. If he flat calls, and he bets into you preflop, this is also an easy laydown IMO.

I dislike a re-raise here a lot, for that value. I think a call is in order here, hoping to hit a set. Or, you could raise to 800-100, which won't commit you to the pot so much (you have 4K or so right?), should they re-raise you. OR, you could go all-in pre-flop (which I like the best I think with pocket 2's). 8)