No one in that hand had reason to be in that hand. You are putting yourself in a bad position when you call 8x the bb with 88. I use a limit of 5x so long as they have 20 bb's in their stack. That hand should of been over before it ever started. It should of folded around to the pre flop raiser. That being said, looking at the action it makes some sort of sense. Small blind hit a decent flop for his hand, considering the action of UTG screams big hand. He checks hoping UTG bet's his big hand, but get's the bb to bet out with what ends up being a prospecting hand. I think at this point the SB should of pushed all in instead of calling to eliminate the UTG player. The turn hurts the SB hand and he knows it. Now he's trying to get some from the UTG player to off set the chips he's about to ship elsewhere. He is drawing to 10 outs at best. The river only finishes off his hand.
My question is this......How do you know the UTG hand if you were watching the table? He didn't showdown so either you know the player or you were the player.






