I fold here pretty easily…..it's a huge portion of his stack and you cant really think he's going to limp 22-77…..so best case scenario we are racing for almost 3/4 of your stack.  Just feel like you can find better spots then this with 8's.  Had he been raising utg much at all or was he usually opening for a raise?  Had he limp/jammed at all to this point?

If he's been limp calling all of your raises it may skew what his actual limp/jam range is here cause at that point I guess he may be capable of doing it with ATC and then calling with 8's is right.  I tend to side more on the fact he was doing this with a tighter range knowing he could limp, people would probably limp behind and since you had the button you will raise a very large percentage of the time and he can limp/jam a tighter range.  (I could be leveling myself here with this thinking).  The thing is you still have a really good stack at this stage of the tourney….for argument's sake I gave him what I consider a pretty wide range of hands that he could be limp/jamming with here and with 88 you have 48% equity against the range of  55+, ATs+, KQs, ATo+, KQo.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

 231,161,040  games     0.285 secs   811,091,368  games/sec

Board:
Dead:  

    equity     win     tie           pots won     pots tied    
Hand 0:     48.459%      47.87%     00.59%          110654868       1362953.00   { 8c8h }
Hand 1:     51.541%      50.95%     00.59%          117780266       1362953.00   { 55+, ATs+, KQs, ATo+, KQo }

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I like Cougars thinking about his range being skewed by you constantly raising his limps and that his range is much wider than one that completely crushes us. However, in such a difficult and perhaps marginal spot I think I fold not wanting to risk that much of my stack in a tournament where I have an edge. Can't remember which pro said it, but it was something along the lines of if you have an edge on the field then there's no need to take marginal +EV spots – you only need to do this in tournaments where you don't have an edge. I'm with JDOG too on limping behind w/ 88 here – I probably ISO with only one limper or a better hand like TT+,AJ+. I also like JDOG's thinking about closing the action – something that I've not really thought of before, but definitely should have done!