JTo river

[Jeffage]

You're in the middle and can be raised on the flop if you bet, which you want. Building a big pot on this draw heavy board is less desirable to me than betting and hopefully clearing someone or giving them a worse price. Also, if you checkraise the flop, you allow an overpair to play perfectly against you with position and basically play perfect - extracting max from you and facing the other guy with two cold on the turn.

You have a pair of tens. While it is top pair and top pair is strong short, there are many cards you don't want to see and you're play on the flop is not going to encourage anyone to fold at pretty much any point and can put you in jeopardy later. I only mentioned the turn checkraise as the turn came down in this hand, not as a default - but if you bet and get raised, making it headsup going into the turn, I think an aggressive player will bet that turn card much of time, giving u a gimme checkraise. Ok...back to work.

Jeff