This was a single table 9 person sit & go, top 3 get paid....

LIRFund played a lot of junk hands and seemed to be able to outdraw just about anything. StickItInX had been handcuffed with a short stack for some time and had been very tight and quiet, obvously waiting for a hand.

Payouts were:
first - $45
second - $27
third - $18


PokerStars Game #4356402421: Tournament #21661347, Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2006/03/20 - 18:58:16 (ET)
Table '21661347 1' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: A-Waaz (5623 in chips)
Seat 5: StickItInX (872 in chips)
Seat 6: LIRFund (7005 in chips)
A-Waaz: posts small blind 75
StickItInX: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to A-Waaz [Th Tc]
LIRFund: raises 300 to 450
A-Waaz: calls 375
StickItInX: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ac Td 3h]
A-Waaz: checks
LIRFund: bets 450
A-Waaz: raises 450 to 900
LIRFund: raises 4950 to 5850
A-Waaz: calls 4273 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ac Td 3h] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [Ac Td 3h Ad] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
A-Waaz: shows [Th Tc] (a full house, Tens full of Aces)
LIRFund: shows [Ah 7s] (a full house, Aces full of Threes)
LIRFund collected 11396 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11396 | Rake 0
Board [Ac Td 3h Ad 3d]
Seat 2: A-Waaz (small blind) showed [Th Tc] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Aces
Seat 5: StickItInX (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: LIRFund (button) showed [Ah 7s] and won (11396) with a full house, Aces full of Threes

sorry dude but runner runner sucks, IMO you got your chips in with the best hand on a semi connected flop.

The only thing I would have done differently was to push all in after he bet 450 on the flop.

I want to protect against drawing hands but I get the feeling that he would have called regardless of how you bet.

At least you cashed though right, $18 is still better than a kick in the balls

I love when people try to disguise beat beats as startegy questions.

What would you do? I flopped middle set and my opponent went allin

Eddie, you're an ******* and I have yet to see anything useful posted by you. **** off and die.

Minraising with middle set after the flop is -ev. Unless he's a clown, you should be able to push him off Ace-rag with a sizeable bet. If not, then runner runner is something difficult to avoid. He's not going anywhere if he sees the turn.

he pushed his whole stack into a 2300+ chip pot with A7. There was no raising him off this hand.