pocket tens w/ no overcards

[badplayer]

Prima Poker 0.50/1 Hold'em (9 handed)

Fairly tight game, not too aggressive.
Usually no more than four players see the flop.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, <font color="green"> Hero calls</font> , CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB checks.

Flop: 3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
BB bets, MP2 calls, <font color="green"> Hero calls</font>.

Turn: 5 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players)
BB bets, MP2 calls, <font color="green"> Hero calls</font>.

River: 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
BB bets, MP2 calls, <font color="green"> Hero ???</font>.

Suggestions/Feedback Please

[Piiop]

Raise preflop!!!
Raise the flop!!!

The turn and river would be different had you raise so the way you played it you should just call the river.

[cold_cash]

Raise pre-flop.

Raise the flop.

Bet the turn.

The way you played this you have to call the river bet.

[Sent]

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Raise pre-flop.

Raise the flop.

Bet the turn.

The way you played this you have to call the river bet.

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I agree.

-Sent

[badplayer]

Thanks all.
This is what I was expecting.

Pocket pairs, even jacks and queens, have done me wrong a lot. So I've been limping in with anything less than queens to see if i flop the set.

The worst was not raising on the flop.
I needed to see where I was at.
Though it was a tight table, I don't think a flush draw would have folded.

On the turn, I was even considering folding. Too weak?

This is all part of a -80BB slump and plays like this don't help.

[Jimbobobb]

Playing Ten's and Jacks strictly for set value is probably not a very good idea - you'll flop a set around one in 7 times, and these hands are worth more than that. There's also no reason to give the blinds a free play when you hold a hand as good as Tens or Jacks. A lot of the time you'll have undercard flops or even boards, and they'll win for you completely unimproved.

Nobody raised pre-flop so the chances of big pocket pairs are slim. I'd say raise the flop, and see what happens from there. Having a bad streak is not fun, but going into weak/tight mode will probably just make the streak last longer. It'll pass, don't worry :-)

[badplayer]

Thanks.

I was referring to pocket pairs in general.
Obviously an overpair with tens or jacks or better is a very good situation. I should have played it much more aggressively than I did.

BTW: I called the last bet.

BB showed 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 3 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
MP3 showed 6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

BB wins 9BB

[Jaran]

Hey bad,
Raise pf. Bet raise the flop.

-Jaran