QTo blind steal
 

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The table has been playing very tight at the point in the tournament the hand took place, especially my opponents on the button, and the blinds.

Blinds were $2000/$4000 with a $100 ante, 10 handed. About 220+ players remain, 180 pay, I am not worried about coming into the top 180 though, I want to build my stack.

It is folded to me in CO and I raise it to $13,000
with: Tc Qh I have $61,737 in chips, and am about 10k below average. I have been a bit more agressive than most the other players at the table, I have stolen the blinds around 2 times each the last four rounds. One time the SB pushed all in when I raised in the Highjack and I folded. This happened around 3 rounds previous (By rounds I mean button going all the way around table).

The button, who has $132,626 in chips, calls.

Flop comes: Js Ah Ts

Actions on me, pot is $33,000, I have $47,737 left in chips, whats my play?

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YOU IDOIT!!! HOW COULD YOU THINK RAISING WITH Q 10 IS A SMART CHOICE! FOLD PRE! I MEAN HES LIKE THE CHIPLEADER OR SOMETHING, YOU THINK RAISING THE CHIP LEADER SMART!?!?!? WHATS YOURE SN I WANT TO ADD YOU TO MY BUDDY LIST!?!?!?

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AM I WORNG ANYBODY!?!?!

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This happened around 3 rounds previous (By rounds I mean button going all the way around table).

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Kind of a crappy spot here. I would probably check fold, but I don't think pushing is that bad. Would really depend on villian and what type of hands you think you can get him to fold.

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anybody else have anything constructive to say. My problem with the hand for post flop is that pretty much what ever I bet (if I bet less than all in), if he then pushes all in after words, I will be getting the correct odds to call the all in, if I am assuming he has an Ace with a kicker below Ten. So do I want to make a continuation bet knowing I will have to call his all in bet if he has an Ace, or the other options, of pushing all in to start, or check and fold if he bets.

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First things first. There is an ignore function which I suggest you use and set it to ignore the poster who has his dick prepetually resting on the caps lock and thinks being obnoxious is helpful.

So, I fold PF with your stack size. You are at about 15 BBs + antes, Q10 is not a hand you want to be raising especially if you've been active stealing the last couple of orbits- and you definitely want to have a much stronger hand with a/the chipleader to your direct left. I would much prefer open pushing a hand like 88 here, then trying to play poker with such an awkward stack. The flop is horrible so I would probably just check fold and go into push fold mode and build my stack back up. If you had about 6 BBs left, you could open push Q10 but here I turbo muck it and look for something much stronger before raising off 1/5 of my stack with a mediocre holding.