Hello,

I haven't played online poker for real money ever since Black Friday so I have been playing in single table tournaments in friend's houses around the city. Tournament was a turbo $20 winner take all 8 player SNG (10 minute blinds with each player dealing their own cards). Almost all players were calling stations but laid down most their hands when their tournament life was on the line. Starting stack was 10,000 and blinds started at 100/200. It was the second hand and I had 82 of hearts. UDG folded and UDG+1 limped for 200. UDG +2 folded and I was third to act. I said "make it 800". This was a call because according to the "tournament director" I had to say raise. I was forced to put out my 200. One more player limped in behind me and the "tournament director" said "I raise to 800" with a laugh. I saw this and the small duplicate raise as weakness. Everyone called behind him including the first limper and I said "Im all in" continuing my story. I did this for a number of reasons. If "TD" was weak, there was about 5000 in dead money in the pot. I knew a lot of the players had mediocre hands. And if was called by a premium ace, I would be 40% to win. "TD" did fold AQ but the caller right behind him was trapping with AK and everyone else folded. They were surprised to see my hand and didn't understand my logic but I thought it was fine. What do you guys think? Thanks.

Why are you raising with junk over multiple loose limpers who will pay to see the flop? If you're planning to make them fold once they've seen the flop, you're taking a very high risk strategy.

Reshoving over a guy who knows you wanted to raise initially and is now inviting you to 3bet him also seems a bit silly, especially if there are other players calling his raise when they know that you wanted to raise initially and can expect you to squeeze.

Against bad players who play too many cards and call too much, you need to tighten up a bit, value bet them to death, and take more cheap flops in position instead of wasting your chips trying to raise them off a hand preflop.

Stupid.