Poker Stars Sunday Million – Tens on the Button

Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million NL Tournament, 500+30
Your image: A bit tight
Stage of tourney: 18 players remain out of 2768
Avg stack: About 1.5 million
Misc notes:
Your hand: T♥T♦

This hand is based on a scenario from The Poker Stars Sunday Million tournament on 1-28-07.

The Setup: In the last three hands, Player A raised all in from UTG+2 (all folded), folded, and now has raised all in again from UTG. The table folds around to you on the button and you hold tens.

18 players remain. The payout structure is flat from 10th to 18th (about $7,600) and then jumps to $11,000 for 9th. The blinds will increase again before the BB gets to you. You don’t have any history with this particular player.

What’s your play?

5 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

Sam

It’s an easy call : you are second short stack of the table and he probably wouldn’t move all in with a big pair, but he would do so with a medium one which means you would be huge favorite or with any two high cards which put you in a coin flip situation. Besides, you don’t care finishing 18th or 11th, so it’s a good opportunity. The only hand that would scare me is JJ, but you have to take the risk.

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Scott

Easy call. Your M is about 6 and will drop to below 5 when the blinds increase. I’d be pushing with this hand probably no matter what happened before me anyway.

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Greg D'Eon

I don’t think it is an easy call …If those blinds are as eager to win the big money as you are then you’ve just given them must better odds to jump in themselves without running the risk of going broke. The question is what are those players gonna call with. There are 2 of them that need to fold and I think there is a decent likelihood that one could call , given the pot odds you’ve given them and another player hurts your 10′s …

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Luiz Soares

Easy call

He don`t have a Bigger Pair than you, and your call is the best here.
He can hav a 2 over pairs, like AQ, AK, or a High Card and a Low Card suited, like A7s…A9s…here you are the heavy favourite!

Thanksz

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The Terrace

I don’t like the call here cause two overs becomes a close enough of a coin flip that I would hate to lose this effort on a coinflip. The two players to your right are close enough to your stack that they may push as the button nears them and do something foolish. Use patience, see what the other table does, and attempt to make the final table for greater profit.

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