wacky FTOP hand

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1-2 online, loose passive game.

I open-raise UTG+1 with pocket tens. two cold-callers, BB comes along.

Flop is 268, with two spades. I do not have a spade. I bet out, one caller, CO raises, BB drops, I reraise. Guy in the middle calls, CO calls. Three to the turn.

Turn is an offsuit 3. I bet again, middle guy drops, CO calls.

River is the ten of spades. I check, CO checks.

[marbles]

He turned over JJ and I scooped with my suckout set.

The hand stood out to me, since I violated the FTOP on exactly every street, and he violated it on all but one (checking the river). Even still, I'm having trouble figuring out what, if anything, I would do differently in the future.

On the flop, his raise looked like QQ, JJ, or a free card play with a flush draw. After he called my reraise and called the turn, I all but ruled out the big pair and saw the Ts as a bad card on the river. I was fully prepared to call a river bet, but I didn't like the card when it happened. Imagine my surprise when he checked behind.

[hutz]

You played it exactly as I would have. This hand demonstrates one of the traits that makes poker challenging, fun, and frustrating -- you often have to play your cards based on incomplete/misleading information. Remember this win the next time someone's two-outer hits against you! [img]/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]