Big pot with 88

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For those of you who don't like my play, would anything change if I had 99 or TT?

For those of you that do like my play, would anything change if I had 22-77? What would you change if anything?

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I'd like TT much better. You beat more pairs (99/88 for example). It helps rule out AT as a holding since you hold two T's already, so you can make AK more likely.

In a nutshell, with TT you beat a significantly larger range of hands he could hold.

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Honestly, although the PPs are possible, I don't think they are that likely at all. Is this passive guy really raising preflop with 88,99? Is he then proceeding to check the flop, and then call two with two overcards? I guess we do beat a few more hands that are occasionally there, but if we have TT, it is far less likely he has AT, which is one of the hands we could of potentially extracted value from with our other PPs.