$6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

PokerStars Game #12835582236: Tournament #65140332, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2007/10/25 - 09:50:45 (ET)
Table '65140332 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: SwampDonkey8 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: hero (1630 in chips)
Seat 3: BAJA_B (1470 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: slmccra (1870 in chips)
Seat 5: cbl20 (2990 in chips)
Seat 7: Dagrump (1400 in chips)
Seat 8: win_man3 (1440 in chips)
Seat 9: leduce06 (1200 in chips)
Dagrump: posts small blind 15
win_man3: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hero [Tc Ts]
leduce06: folds
SwampDonkey8: folds
hero: raises 60 to 90
BAJA_B: folds
slmccra: folds
cbl20: folds
Dagrump: folds
win_man3: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [2h 5d 2s]
win_man3: checks
hero: bets 120
win_man3: raises 180 to 300
hero: ????

Not much of a read, but villain hasn't played many hands, so I have trouble putting him on a random duece here. Looks to me like he's chasing away a c-bet from my AK or AQ that missed. But going broke with TT here seems weak.

My first hand posting here, any advice?

Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

He could have any where from 66-99 or a big ace.
With no reads this early on in a tournament it's not an easy decision, but I don't think he flat calls JJ-AA so I may repot here.

It is a 6.50, also, try getting a converter for these hands

Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

Without reads, I push. His range is huge here, including air. If he flips over a higher PP or a duece, make a note a fire up another table.

I don't want to call down either as there are plenty of scare cards that could come.

Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

I tried the converter at pokerzion but some of the tags didn't work and I didn't know how to fix them. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

Well, most converters have an option for different forums. I guess pokerzion got those too.

Anyways:
Stick it in. There won't be many flops that are better for TT to go broke, besides TT9 maybe... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
If he's got the 55, so be it... but i can't see a 2 in his range either, so just stick it in. you'll get called by 5rag, 33-99 or some random overcard(s) a lot.

Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

I'm very new to STTs - so this may be BS - but villain is probably thinking that that flop is almost certainly not helping you, so a c/r from him with air will make you think he hit something.... so I shove and say [censored] you to the monitor.

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Re: $6.50 TT vs flat calling BB on paired undercard board.
 

Just shove, he has 66-99 here probably most often, featuring a variety of worse hands and random bluffs.