Good morning TPE,

I've been enjoying the recent threads and learning a lot from them.

Here was a situation that I'm pretty sure I played badly. I share a chiplead until this hand with a villain playing VPIP26 PFR 11, Limp 15, 3bet 10.4, c-bet 100 (good sample).   If preflop was somehow ok, I know the turn action felt wrong and by the river I am just making a crying call.

Merge Network $250 Gtd – [+R, Turbo] No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t2500.00/t5000.00 Blinds + t500.00 – 8 players – View hand 2521836
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter

dano8989 (BB): BB = 6.3, t31510
sheetsfizzle (UTG): BB = 7.5, t37319
swindler151aces (UTG+1): BB = 13.0, t65095
2wildncrazyguyz0912 (MP1): BB = 5.8, t28769
akaace14 (MP2): BB = 9.4, t47236
Hero (CO): BB = 15.2, t76058
pilot13 (BTN): BB = 15.5, t77700
zDONKz (SB): BB = 8.7, t43313

Pre Flop: (t11500) Hero is CO with 8 8
1 fold, swindler151aces calls t5000, 2 folds, Hero calls t5000, 2 folds, dano8989 checks

Flop: (t21500) 9 J 2 (3 players)
dano8989 checks, swindler151aces bets t5000.00, Hero calls t5000, dano8989 folds

Turn: (t31500) Q (2 players)
swindler151aces bets t5000.00, Hero raises to t10000.00, swindler151aces calls t5000

River: (t51500) 5 (2 players)
swindler151aces bets t5000.00, Hero calls t5000

Preflop I was doubting if this player is really going to liimp/fold at this stage.  He does limp a lot, but that's throughout the tournaments, and I considered that he could be willing to call with many hands that are only slight underdogs against me, or inducing strong.  I'm dominating only a small part of his range, it seems.  Given this, I probably should have folded over limping yeah?  But still the best move looks like a shove?

Once I limp, get this board and he min bets, I decide to float as he hasn't shown much strength, but I don't imagine many worse hands will call my raise.  Admittedly, I was already getting lost.  I couldn't put him on a range expect the stuff I eliminated when he didn't fold preflop.

On the turn when he min bets again, I was .. confused.  Still couldn't narrow his range much, but it's obvious he can have some kind of hand.  Would this have been a reason to raise on the flop or to raise bigger on the turn, like 16000, put some pressure on him, and fold if he shoves?

I don't know why I was so passive here.  I click raise, basically intending to get to a showdown and keep him from bluffing me on the river with misses (of which I see there are few).  But if I wanted a showdown, I really should have just called the turn.

And of course I have to call the min bet on the river.

My initial analysis is that I should have folded or shoved preflop.

Any comments are most appreciated.