$3R TT Preflop

[radii]

Villain is new to the table so I don't have any reads on him. There are no particularily noteworthy players still remaining behind me except the button being very short and SB being very large. This is in the 3rd hour of the $3 rebuy tournament. 396 remain, 360ish pay. My stack is a bit below average.

My M is 10, but I'm really not comfortable with anything here. If i flat call overs are coming too often, if I re-raise to 10k or so can I fold to a push? If I push it seems like a big overbet that only gets called by bigger hands. Maybe a push folds JJ and AK sometimes? I guess my gut feels like this is probably a standard push but it doesn't really feel great. Thoughts?

Poker Stars, $3 + $0.30 NL Hold'em Tournament, 600/1,200 Blinds, 9 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

UTG+1: 48,225
UTG+2: 40,961
Hero (MP1): 29,285
MP2: 18,319
CO: 25,690
BTN: 3,995
SB: 134,825
BB: 48,420
UTG: 29,446

Pre-Flop: (2,925) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (MP1)
UTG folds, <font color="red">UTG+1 raises to 3,600</font>, UTG+2 folds, <font color="red">Hero ???</font>

[Steroid Boy]

if you call and fold flop for any reason you still have &gt;20BBs

[JSmith2007]

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if you call and fold flop for any reason you still have &gt;20BBs

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Yep. No real worry here if you call and have to fold the flop. This is a good spot to call and shove on a low board assuming UTG+1 has an AK-AQ type hand IMO.

And you're M is way over 10..not sure where you got that from.

[radii]

converter doesn't accurately point out antes, there's a 125 ante. its a standard Stars tournament and it was listed in the pot so I didn't point that out.

Pre-Flop: (2,925)

Hero (MP1): 29,285

So my M is almost exactly 10. I have about 16 "True BBs" using that calc instead, but I learned M first and have not fully adjusted to that way of thinking yet!

If I call and fold the flop I'll be down to 26k with the blinds passing in 2 hands to take me down to 23k, so unless something happened in those 3 hands my M would be down to 7.5, or ~13 true BBs.

I'm not terribly uncomfortable with that, minus the fact that players seem to LOVE to make squeeze plays at this level and a raise and call with 5 people still to go seems like its begging for multiple callers or a push behind.


EDIT TO ADD: I'm fine w/ committing more chips without committing my entire stack here, but just cold calling a raise with pocket 10s and folding to a cont bet on the flop unless its all below 10 with our current stack sizes seems weak doesn't it?

[Hattifnatt]

I would most likely fold or shove leaning towards laying it down.

[McMelchior]

I'm not shoving over an UTG raiser with TT and 23BB without reads. If he had opened from MP/LP it would a different story.

If you feel there's a just halfway decent chance nobody's going to squeeze I call and see the flop.

OK, maybe pushing is not such a bad play after all ...