When Raising Preflop Commits You

[Elitist Atheist]

6 or 7 handed (forget exactly which) blinds are 30/60 and are soon going to 50/100.

I have 670 in chips. I am UTG with A10 suiited. What is your action? raise, fold, or all-in?

my thoughts:

raise - I feel like raising here committs me to the hand, so I might as well go all-in for more fold equity.

fold - Many a time I've played A10 from UTG here I've ran into hands that either dominate me or I'm a small dog to. Are the blinds really high enough to be worth stealing to risk this?

all-in: see above for reasons why I don't want to all-in

Basically I feel with this kind of stack to blind ratio, a raise with this hand necessitates I raise all-in. And an all-in raise for these amount of blinds, in this position, compared to my stack size, does not seem worth the risk in my opinion. So should I fold this hand? Seems rather weak to me...Maybe I'm over analyzing it...Maybe I should just put my money in and if someone happens to have a better hand then that's the way the cookie crumbles..bleh...insight would be appreciated

[DevinLake]

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fold - Many a time I've played A10 from UTG here I've ran into hands that either dominate me or I'm a small dog to. Are the blinds really high enough to be worth stealing to risk this?


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Easy fold.

[Al P]

Fold, you still have some fold equity at 50/100 with 600 chips left (since blinds are hitting you next) in the latter positions.