Situation from last night

[AHiltz]

3022 people registered. 1.5 hours in. 500ish people left. Biggest stack is roughly 70k, average is 15 or something like that.
I was at a very good table. I had 25k and was pushing my stack around picking up easy chips. Then I get moved to this table.....

My 25k stack is average. People are taking turns stealing. Not uncommon for 1 person to raise, and another rereaise and they both showdown garbage.

Villian has been aggro. He lost over half his stack in the last 10 mins. He's shown down some real gems. He's gone over the top of people's steal attempts and gotten them to fold. He will play any two cards.

SB 400
BB 800

Fold, fold fold
Hero 25,000 Ac8c raises to 2000
fold, fold
Villian 11,500 pushes
fold
both blinds fold

Hero?


More info in white below.
I knew that I was at worst a coinflip against this guy. He thought he could push me off the hand. So, do I risk the coinflip with my stack and go for the final table, or fold and see what happens?
I called and he showed red 3's. They held up and I was in shit since they blinds soon went to 500/1000.

[PokerPatNEU]

I hate racing tilty villains with mediocre hands. Why take a coin flip when you know you will probably be able to trap him with a quality hand if you just wait around for a bit? I look for a better spot, with ~30BB I think it's best to try not to get that much money in pre flop without a much better hand than A8s.

[AHiltz]

Gotcha

Thanks for the reply

[chardrian]

Fold - not worth the risk.

[TanO]

I fold and remember that villain thinks you're now just as weak to a reraise at everyone else at the table, meaning next time you can raise with quality and hope he tries the same thing again.