simple question, TT UTG

[PokerDork]

While participating in a conversation at an online forum far less insightful than this one, there recently arose a thread in which a person said he had TT UTG, in a wild loose aggressive game. He asked what he should do. Many people said call, a few donks said fold, and I said raise, and not only that but I always raise with TT utg in any game. People seemed to think that TT is not an auto-raise UTG, I think it is. Who agrees, disagrees, if its a sometimes what conditions make TT raiseable/unraisable?

[J.R.]

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People seemed to think that TT is not an auto-raise UTG

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"People" are why poker can be played very profitably

[pokerjo22]

I'm guessing that a time to limp with TT UTG is if you expect a limp will attract many callers, making going for the set profitable, but a raise has little chance of leaving you heads up or stealing the blinds. Its similar to JJ in HFAP. The worst number of callers for JJ is two I think (or maybe three) preflop.

[csuf_gambler]

TT is auto raise from any position(given no prior raises)

[easypete]

Only time I limp w/ TT is when I'm sitting w/ a maniac on my left who will raise it for me. Other than that... Raise.

[surfdoc]

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Only time I limp w/ TT is when I'm sitting w/ a maniac on my left who will raise it for me. Other than that... Raise.

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This can sometimes bite you in the ass if someone tries a reisolation move and 3 bets the maniac. I think raising and letting the maniac 3 bet works even better.

[tripdad]

limit or no limit?

cheers!

[schifty]

well said. Depends on limit or nolimit and texture of the table. I've started to limp tt-qq more utg cause when you face a big reraise in nl and you're out of position, you find yourself putting in a lot of money preflop and playing for set value. I don't think limping qq utg is a crime and certainly don't think limping tt there is. You get in a lot more pots with a better chance of busting an overpair.
That being said, mix it up. People shouldn't have a read if you limp utg. I limp ak here at times as well. Nowadays, raising a hand like tt here is just a posturing move, just as I would sometimes raise with 55-77 here for a little deception. Can't tell you how many times I've seen people misread an utg raise after utg sets his sixes.

[Kevroc]

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TT is auto raise from any position(given no prior raises)




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Why? If I'm next to act after someone open raises, why not pop it again to get all the overcards out?

[PokerDork]

the post was intended for limit. Though I think I pretty much always open-raise UTG with TT in NL as well. That having been said, I'm not that great of a NL player, so I'd be open to other approaches. But, in limit I think I always raise.