Loving this hand..
Thought this type of thing only happened to me.
http://www.myhands.com/poker-hands/all/hand?nid=210357#nid=210299
Yes, I thought the 8 on the river was particularly poetic.
This was one of the plays that I can"t really justify. I have never been a great user of the "re-steal", at the levels I normally play people find it very hard to fold! I had made a concious decision to play much more aggressively in this, if I got a decent size stack.
Obviously the timing gets lost in these replayers, but I really didn"t expect a "snap call" here with a pair of 8"s... pretty bad play IMO.
There"s a worse "mis-timed-re-steal-suck-out" move later, where we were very even in chips, at least this time I did still have a perfectly playable stack if it all went tits-up. As the old adage goes, "Better to be lucky than good."