[fnurt]

Let's flip things around for fun. You're on the button with TT. Someone raises in early position, there's one call, and the action is on you. You can debate the proper action in this spot, but wary of the EP raiser, you flat call.

The flop comes J77 with 2 hearts. The raiser bets and now it's on you. Now personally, to just give it up here seems pretty weak, but if you want to play, you're probably going to have to raise here to see where you're at, which actually ends up being more expensive than the actual hand under discussion.

My point is that it's not really position that killed you, it's the fact that you had a non-nut hand and someone apparently hit their overcard. In fact, by being the aggressor before the flop, you probably got away from it more cheaply than you would have otherwise.

Fact is, no one ever said TT was a guaranteed win, just that it rates to be a pretty good hand. In this case, you could have flopped a set, you could have flopped undercards, you could have flopped an overcard that nobody hit, but none of those things happened. Oh well. That doesn't mean you should start regretting putting money in the pot.

It would be interesting to look more closely at some of your other TT hands and look at the stack sizes, whether you came in for a raise every time, etc. I bet there's something to be learned there.