confused w/ TT

[C M Burns]

So my main problem with calling pre-flop is that others will likley call too reducing the chance that I will flop the best hand most of the time i'd be playing for the set and I'm not getting the odds to do this. although I am starting to think this or just folding would be ok.

And my concern with raising less is that if I only raise to say 1600 he will call with anything, since it is as much to call as his initial bet, so i will learn almost nothing about his hand and not have a chance to take it down defeating much of the purpose of raising, although i may at least get it heads up.

And then the flop perhaps a 1600ish bet and folding to a raise is the best play it just seems weak, but to raise me he would basicly have to risk all his chips and would be a tough bluff.

So part of my thinking here was that my tournament play has been too tight-weak/passive that I wasn't taking the chances needed to win tournaments. But perhaps this situation is not the right spot for too much agression.

[kuro]

I take it the rebuy period is over?

TT is extremely hard to play. I would have just flat called here and taken a flop, because making a significant raise puts just too much of your stack in and then you simply are not going to have the chips to find out where you're at.

You figure that you're not up against aces or kings because they didn't reraise you pre-flop. You're probably not up against queens because there's a queen on the flop. So of the hands he might have you probably have to worry most about AQ,KQ,or JJ.

With the way you played it, I'd probably represent AQ here and push. I wouldn't be happy with it, but I'd really have a hard time with checking it and then folding to the bet that's almost sure to come on the turn.

[C M Burns]

thanks for the advice, I think I need to stop thinking of tt a a big pair. I've done this with my ring game play and it has helped. I thought my tounament game needed more agression but not here.

For the record on the flop my thinking went similar to Kuro's that there is a reasonable chance that I am ahead, but very vulnerable to free cards, and I might push him off jj, so I pushed. He calls w/ Q9s??? go figure. I am just going to pretend he had AQ and out played me.