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Under these circumstances, he cannot afford to pass a hand as good as a pair of tens.

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What is it about plain english???

TT UTG at full table no limit is not a good hand.

At best, it is an average hand against average competition. At worst, it is a marginal if not unplayable hand against tough competition.

In the player's scenario, an M of 10 or whatever HoH or new age poker lingo you want to throw at it, the player is in no immediate danger of getting blinded out. He has at least 5 orbits of chips left, even if he gets dealt nothing but 72o for the next 30 minutes.

The point is most players will lose more money with TT UTG in this situation than they will make.

One pretty much has to push or fold. The problem is that the only hands that will stay with you are ones that have you beat, or have a more than decent chance of beating you.

If you want to put your tournament life on a middle pair UTG full table, then so be it. Personally, it's not my idea of a good time.

However, I will leave you with these queries. Do you believe that TT UTG is always worth playing in any full table scenario? If yes, then never mind, no point in going further with this discussion. If no, then under which circumstances in your mind has TT UTG now gone from a strong hand to not playable?