$0 NL HE MTT: Should I have folded to the shove?

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It was the GGPoker Weekly Freeroll with bubble size 3215, but the min prize was a ticket and C$ was only offered from the 800th.

There were about 3950 players left, I was at about the 2400th place but I wanted C$ so I wanted to further increase the stack.

When the flop was shown, villain bet, I raised, he shoved and I called. It turned out to be a coin flip as I got a pair but he got the nut draw, and the draw went good, and I was eliminated.

Was my call correct?
 

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This is the exact reason not to play with terrible cards, OK so you're getting decent odds to limp, but you have 3 players behind who can raise you and you have 82s, so even when you make a flush you can often lose, as you did.

Just fold this pre, and wait for better, which won't be that difficult.

Then once you do flop a weak flush draw, I don't like re raising, if you want to play this hand, then surely calling and getting to showdown as cheaply as possible is the better option, rather than making this a hand you make a stand with not that far from the bubble! If if you do hit your flush, its only kind of a bluff catcher at best, depending on prior action.

Also awareness of the other players stacks, he is one player who can play an all in and still have a decent ish stack left, so he has even less reason to fold against you.
 
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I think you played well from my perspective, I imagine you played like this because you saw a good flop for your hand and you wanted more chips, I would easily do the same if I were in your situation
 
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With 10 BB’s, 82s is not a good enough hand to push all-in pre-flop, or even call a 3B all-in raise on the flop.
Better to fold this hand pre-flop and wait for a better hand.
 
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Preflop
Easy fold. Just because two other players have limped, its not profitable to limp behind with any two suited cards.

Flop
You flop a pair + draw, and usually these type of hands play best as a pull rather than a push. The reason to take an aggressive line with draws is to get better hands to fold. Which would be easy, if you had 8 high, but here you actually have second pair, so better hands are mostly top pair, which I dont expect anyone to ever fold in a freeroll. So my prefered play is to just call and see a turn.

And if you are going to raise, I think, this needs to be a jam. Maybe - just maybe - this will get some better hands like second pair better kicker to fold, and with your sizing you are committing yourself to the pot anyway. Which also mean, that when you get 3-bet, its a very easy call, since you are getting 3:1, and you always have equity against a single opponent.
 
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