Playing TT

rsq · #1 06-03-2005, 12:16 AM

I was MP, with a full $800 of chips in level 1 of a party $20 SNG.

I was dealt TT. I bet $200.

Does that sound right?

Thx

dfscott · #2 06-03-2005, 12:19 AM

No, limp and try and to flop a set.

Karak567 · #3 06-03-2005, 12:35 AM

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No, limp and try and to flop a set.

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smcannon · #4 06-03-2005, 12:21 AM

Where you first in the pot? If so I might break out a 3BB bet. But generally I'm just limping this. To many ways for TT to go wrong on the flop being so early in the tournament.

Sidekick · #5 06-03-2005, 12:29 AM

I'd say very wrong.

Limp and hope to flop a set. If the pot is raised behind you, fold.

While TT looks very good, it is really just a marginal hand at a full table. There are just too many ways for it to lose to risk much of your stack with it early in a tournament.

By betting 200 here, one of two things tends to happen. You pick up the blinds... 25 chips, big whoop... or you get called by a better hand or reraised by a better hand. Even if you just get called what do you do on a AQx flop and someone then bets into you?

It seems really weak to limp with a hand like TT early in a tournament, but many very successful players advocate this strategy.

PokerCat69 · #6 06-03-2005, 01:27 AM

TT is a push when the blinds are worth stealing. Early in the tourny either limp or fold. I personally fold TT in this situation.

dfscott · #7 06-03-2005, 01:31 AM

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TT is a push when the blinds are worth stealing. Early in the tourny either limp or fold. I personally fold TT in this situation.

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You wouldn't risk less than 2% of your stack to try and double up?

Myst · #8 06-03-2005, 01:41 AM

Push Preflop...

j/k. limp and flop a set.

rsq · #9 06-03-2005, 01:58 AM

Thx that makes alot of sense.

tjh · #10 06-03-2005, 02:15 AM

I can not find my post on PP strategy but PP strategy is pretty straightforward and new players should figure this out.

One in 8 to flop a set. Often a set can take win all of your opponents chips. So 1/8 to set, = often double up.

So if the other players or you have at least 8 times the bet but more properly 10 to 12 times the bet and no reads then play for a set. Bigger pairs can turn into overpairs on a board of rags so they have additional value, I am talking 88 99 10-10 here.

Other post flop consideration.
A paired board when you have PP either helps you a little or hurts you a lot. You have two pair and the broadway draws are still drawing or someone has trips. In general it is a good thing, well not so much a good thing but a situation that is easy to decide how to act. You make a bet to see where you are at. If they call fear the trips, if they reraise fold.

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tjh