Hero buys into a live 1/2 NLHE (full ring) game for the max of $100.
One opponent has $600.
Of the others, half have $100ish and half have $300ish.

Preflop
UTG raises to $20. 3 calls. Hero calls with 8 2 in cut-off. BB raises to 100 4 calls. Hero ?

The hero calls, knowing that he's gambling, for the purposes of playing a bigger stack against inferior opponents if he wins (and also advertisement value).





Over the whole play, the hero trades $100 for $80 in equity, assuming the raiser has some sort of hand.

It seems to me that he's using the sunk cost of a really horrible initial call to justify the second call. Does anybody see merit in this play?

I understand the temptation, but the deuce is a wickedly weak card.
This just doesn't hit hard often enough against five villains to ever justify.
Pretty sick if you did and it hit.

If you had 33 I could see but not with 82 suited.. I think you should just add $20 more to your stack and keep playing. You can find a better spot to gamble with.

I found this funny. He's talking about inferior opponents, yet he called an initial $20 raise with 8-2.

Fold Preflop.

I'd understand playing suited connectors. Suited 5-gappers against an UTG raise no matter how deep you are is a bad proposition, regardless of how well attended the pot is.

I disagree that there is any merit in this hand. It shoudl've been folded preflop and regardless of awesome pot odds, it should be folded on the flop. In a pot that well attended, it's a given that someone probably has a pair bigger than 88, and it's also likely that his flush draw is dead, meaning he's trying to make 2 pair or a straight with a hand that has 5 gaps in it.

Given the action on this play alone there is no need to "advertise" you are a donkey because people are calling huge raises and pushes with anything so they really dont care. Fold pre-flop, if you do call first bet just fold to push. You should be walking away from this game a big winner without the need to advertise anything.