This hand almost put me on tilt... no reads on villain. This hand just got away from me, felt that villain was bluffing until the river push. Should I have called river? or played somehow better?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (8 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

UTG (t2770)
UTG+1 (t1960)
MP1 (t1410)
MP2 (t360)
CO (t1470)
Button (t1440)
SB (t1480)
Hero (t2610)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
UTG calls t20, 2 folds, MP2 calls t20, 2 folds, SB completes, Hero raises to t120, UTG calls t100, MP2 calls t100, SB folds.

Flop: (t380) , , (3 players)
Hero bets t260, UTG raises to t700, MP2 folds, Hero calls t440.

Turn: (t1780) (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t640, Hero calls t640.

River: (t3060) (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t1310 (All-In), Hero folds.

Final Pot: t4370

Results in white below:
UTG doesn't show.
Outcome: UTG wins t4370.

I'm putting this guy on a lower pair. AA/KK reraise preflop, QQ is in his range though I suppose.

I either 3 bet all in on the flop, or call and shove any turn, or call and CRAI on any turn. I favour calling and shoving the turn personally.

As played on turn, I shove.

As played on river, I call. It's early, but you're getting some nice odds.

Is this an STT?

I know we're supposed to play very tight early on and especially seeing as the villains the only guy who can stack you, but we can go broke here right?

It was a 27 man SnG, I was so close to calling river. I wanted to push flop but figured he would only call me if he was ahead.

After his weakish turn bet I was confident that am still ahead, I should have shoved here. I wish I had just shoved here. But there was so much money in the pot that I though he would checkdown river. I thought unless the guy was nuts or had the nutz he would check river. So stupidly I call turn and he insta pushes river.....

...so I take the whole timebank trying to convince myself Im ahead here. But I kept thinking why would this guy risk his whole stack in this spot unless he had a great hand. I just couldn't pull the trigger. I let this hand turn into a nightmare.... For some reason I ended up convincing myself he had 33 or had made a bad called pf with A2s.

but when I fold he flipped over A8...

Easy 3bet on the flop.

No WAY I check call the turn. If you're going to check in front, get it all in after.

Or just open push the turn.

Originally Posted by jharding666

People risk their whole stack with nothing all the time, just see this Nice call with Q high

If you keep playing THAT scared then you need to seriously look at your game or switch to limit

Lol at A8, turns out calling and shoving the turn would have been the best play!

Yeah I admit I played a bad hand, as I said in my original post I let it get away from me. I do not make a habit playing scared poker but I made a huge error on the turn. This is where I felt I was ahead (should have got my money in) and yet decided to play stupid. But everyone can make mistakes sometimes as long as I learn from it. And on the plus side I got to make a thread to showcase my donky play.