First hand Triple Up

[Fortune 500]

I was playing in a 10 dollar SnG and managed to triple up on the first hand. was a littole nervous to see the all in, but had to call.

***** Hand History for Game 847271488 *****
15/30 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 5258403) - Sun Aug 15 14:46:40 EDT 2004
Table Table 12042 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Smerk (800)
Seat 2: M0neYmaKer65 (800)
Seat 3: ferradj100 (800)
Seat 4: Jack0fClubs (800)
Seat 5: tcottrill (800)
Seat 6: bdmwin (800)
Seat 7: the1bigman (800)
Seat 8: B804532 (800)
Seat 9: jflashrg (800)
Seat 10: fingerme (800)
tcottrill posts small blind (10)
bdmwin posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tcottrill [ Tc, Td ]
the1bigman calls (15)
B804532 folds.
jflashrg calls (15)
fingerme folds.
Smerk calls (15)
M0neYmaKer65 folds.
ferradj100 folds.
Jack0fClubs folds.
tcottrill raises (20) to 30
bdmwin calls (15)
the1bigman calls (15)
jflashrg calls (15)
Smerk calls (15)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ts, Jc, 5h ]
tcottrill checks.
bdmwin bets (125)
the1bigman folds.
jflashrg raises (770) to 770
jflashrg is all-In.
Smerk folds.
tcottrill calls (770)
tcottrill is all-In.
bdmwin calls (645)
bdmwin is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Qc ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 7s ]
Creating Main Pot with $2460 with tcottrill,bdmwin,jflashrg
** Summary **
Main Pot: 2460
Board: [ Ts Jc 5h Qc 7s ]
Smerk balance 770, lost 30 (folded)
M0neYmaKer65 balance 800, didn't bet (folded)
ferradj100 balance 800, didn't bet (folded)
Jack0fClubs balance 800, didn't bet (folded)
tcottrill balance 2460, bet 800, collected 2460, net +1660 [ Tc Td ] [ three of a kind, tens -- Qc,Jc,Tc,Td,Ts ]
bdmwin balance 0, lost 800 [ 5c 5d ] [ three of a kind, fives -- Qc,Jc,5c,5d,5h ]
the1bigman balance 770, lost 30 (folded)
B804532 balance 800, didn't bet (folded)
jflashrg balance 0, lost 800 [ Js Qd ] [ two pairs, queens and jacks -- Qd,Qc,Js,Jc,Ts ]
fingerme balance 800, didn't bet (folded)

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[Humphrind]

weak pre flop raise with 10/10

Stronger could be better, true. But depending on the table, some people prefer to play TT like a lower pocket pair. He had no read on the table because it was the 1st hand, and he was in 1st position.

If you raise big, the only people who will call you will have overcards, and you will be only a slight favorite, or an underpair and you will have to play them post-flop, or an overpair and you are a huge underdog.

Given his table image (none) and read on the table (none) and position, I'd say he played it well.

Even his post flop was OK. He was going for the check-raise (I assume) and he got lucky with jflash overbetting.

[Fortune 500]

I admit, it was a little soft on the raise. I knew it... I've always had relatively bad luck on pocket tens getting burned by overcards, though. So I doubled the bet to just feel out what I was up against. When I didn't get reraised, I figured I was up against lower pairs or overcards. I decided to checkraise because I'd actually played against the player to my right bdmwin and knew that he liked to bet big postflop, so I thought I would check and let him do my dirtywork and reraise him. My notes were right, as 125 was too huge for a top pair bet, and then the all in by jflash scared me a touch, but his limping couldn't let me put him on pocket Js.

So while it was weak to begin with, it paid off.

Please remember that it was first hand, so everyone's still in that feeling out process. And besides, 10/10 is no 7/4o