A Pair of Tens

[billy the punter]

I find this situation one of the hardest in NLHE tournaments. And one I'm never comfortable with. Halfway through the 18k on Betfair. Average stack is 5200. 71 left. How d'you play your pockets tens here? ***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 570345425 ***** NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee, Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante)) - Tuesday, September 01, 20:44:26 GMT 2009 $18,000 Guaranteed NL Hold'em #274446 Table 1 9-max (Real Money) Seat 8 is the button Total number of active players : 9 Seat 1: Quandary ( 2,282.50 ) Seat 2: mejla ( 10,898.50 ) Seat 3: kellyh ( 5,771 ) Seat 4: Maracaibo ( 1,990.25 ) Seat 5: BLACK RAIN ( 7,355.25 ) Seat 6: koule ( 2,165.50 ) Seat 7: athanatos69 ( 13,654.75 ) Seat 8: Harold Boom ( 7,410 ) Seat 9: tricky11 ( 6,186.50 ) Tourney Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante)) tricky11 posts small blind [100] Quandary posts big blind [200] ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to Harold Boom [ Tc, Td ] mejla folds kellyh folds Maracaibo folds BLACK RAIN raises to [700] koule folds athanatos69 folds

[deadlydaveLDN]

Re: A Pair of Tens Call and set mine. The difficult part is if it comes a baby flop. But you and the raiser both have more than 10x the raise size, so you've definitely got the odds to call pre flop. I think it would be more difficult situation if you had between 5500 and 7000. Under 5500 it's a shove.