How to play 10 10 in this situation.

[xPuns1her]

This hand just had me scratching my head a little bit. Wondering if I should of raised preflop, and how much. I probably played it wrong post flop as well. I didnt have any good reads on anyone either... buy in is $109 btw.



Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t1465)
BB (t625)
UTG (t780)
UTG+1 (t380)
MP1 (t1020)
MP2 (t1065)
MP3 (t2440)
CO (t985)
Button (t1240)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls t45, BB calls t30.

Flop: (t180) 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets t30</font>, MP3 calls t30, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t200</font>, BB folds, MP3 calls t170.

Turn: (t610) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 bets t700</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t1310

[xPuns1her]

Help...?

[Jbrochu]

Not sure this will help you, but I probably would have played it the same way. This early, I'm probably not going to re-raise pre-flop but just call and hope to flop a set.

The flop didn't make your set, but you still have an overpair and the t30 looks like a weak continuation bet, so I like the pot sized re-raise.

You can't really like the turn once he called your re-raise, so I think you were correct to fold to his big raise on 4th street.

Anybody else?

[Jman28]

I'd probably play similarly.

Another line might be to see a card before raising. You don't wanna get all in on the flop and would like to keep the pot small. You're a dog against AKs of hearts on the flop.

[john_]

JJ,TT,99 any hand like that is going to be tough to play here. I don't think I re-raise here preflop. I'd probably of check raised less on the flop.