And it is a question worth discussing.

I think you played it right. Given your stack size and the fact that you want callers, I think the bet was appropiate. POst flop, You gotta protect angainst the draws, so you pushed, good move. He called. Bad river. No porblems there.

On a side note though, it appears you rely on the statistics provided by the game to know where you are. You stated tyou were slightly under the average with 2600. With 5 people and 18k TC in play, the average is 3600. 2600 is not slightly under that, its like 30% under. But you can't look at that figure to figure your stack. You need to look at the stacks in play. Does everybody have about the same amount? Or is there one huge stack with everybody else being equal? IN the latter case, when figuring out where my stack is in relation, I remove the CL TC's from the math, since his stack is skewing the numbers. This allows me to figure out where my stack really is. Of course, You can do this by jsut eyeballing it.

This had no affect on your play in this case, obviously, but I'm just saying don't rely on that stat to tell you where you are. Count your BB's, and look at the other stacks.