Dangerously short stacked, seen cheap flop and hit top pair bad kicker

[pat3392]

PokerStars Game 18 person turbo sit&go, top 4 get paid, hero is Maxwell Hall$1.50+$0.25 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: christi480 (5970 in chips)
Seat 2: MissBadaBing (5015 in chips)
Seat 3: tonny-trips (4210 in chips)
Seat 4: Zimzlim (1215 in chips)
Seat 5: baliteke (1385 in chips)
Seat 6: piteu_21 (4075 in chips)
Seat 7: Yakow82 (3025 in chips)
Seat 8: Lucki Actor (1005 in chips)
Seat 9: Maxwell Hall (1100 in chips)
Maxwell Hall: posts small blind 75
christi480: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Maxwell Hall [Tc 8c]
MissBadaBing: folds
tonny-trips: calls 150
Zimzlim: folds
baliteke: folds
piteu_21: folds
Yakow82: calls 150
Lucki Actor: folds
Maxwell Hall: calls 75
christi480: checks
*** FLOP *** [2s Td 4s]
Maxwell Hall: bets 450
christi480: folds
tonny-trips: folds
Yakow82: raises 600 to 1050
Maxwell Hall: calls 500 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (100) returned to Yakow82
*** TURN *** [2s Td 4s] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [2s Td 4s 3c] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***


I raised it pot because I didn't want some one to hit a card on the river; I was going to go all-in but I reasoned that if I was bet the opponent would call anyone; I wouldn't be able to put him of the best hand, and if I went 450 they might try to bluff me or think there flush/two overcards are good. So, I was prepared to call a shove; maybe not a winning move but I'll let you guys give your opinion so I don't influence your say too much

[drmcboy]

it's fine, but no one is going to try and bluff you, you are committed. If you ever put half your stack in and then fold you probably played it bad. FWIW a FD + two overs will often be ahead of you:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

990 games 0.005 secs 198,000 games/sec

Board: Td 2s 4s
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 55.354% 55.35% 00.00% 548 0.00 { QsJs }
Hand 1: 44.646% 44.65% 00.00% 442 0.00 { Tc8c }


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[pat3392]

Hmm, ok then, really got to play with that poker stove program. thanks for all the great replies btw

[Kijjo]

I'm kind of confused, isn't the pot 600 and you bet 450? In your comments it sounds like you're explaining why you bet pot instead of betting 450, I'm lost.
As far as what I think, this is a great flop for your hand. I'd like to go for a check-raise here, but with this flop, unless some of these guys bet 100% of flops, it's too likely that it gets checked around, so I'd just shove.

[stardustakos]

Check raise would definately be my choice, so I can get it all in with a flop like that.

[chuckychess]

(I posted a message, but then realized I misread the starting hand. My bad.)