fold.

the call behind pre is good though.

I agree with the fold..... he just was soo active.. i just smelled a weak weak squeeze.. i mean his sample was only 25 hands at this point but he was running over 55%vpip... still didnt really feel comfortable though.

Take a bigger edge later.  I doubt many people are squeezing super light this early anyway, especially at these limits.

^^^^THIS + what he said before^^^^

Justin, could you please explain this comment further. I thought you were an advocate of re-raising TT preflop. I remember in one of your vids a while back there was some debate about you 3-betting a fairly tight UTG PFR with this hand and then explaining it was because you can shrink their range and get into less tough situations postflop. 

I would of raised it to 575 with pp my tt instead of just flatting. Reason why I do this is to narrow down my opponents range.Since I have position on my opponent it will be easier to play them the rest of the streets. Now if my opponent from the blinds shoves allin or 3 bets me then it makes my decision much easier.

I might be lousy gambler but I'm still in there no matter what!!!!

peace

akathephanom

em... I'll reraise as well  probabaly to 600 to narrow his hand range, if I face a shove then I'll have a better idea of his hand range.

Im certainly not Jurollo, however. Early on in a $5 tournament in this position it is a flat. The stacksizes behind are very important here and if you 3bet then you are effectively 3betting over 1/5 your stack and your hand plays horribly vs a 4bet at these limits. There are two stacks behind who you are committed to call even a 4bet and therefore you will be committing 1/3 your stack vs either of them. Flatting TT here is fine purely for set value. Do you flat 99 here? Probably treat TT almost the same.

You are very rarely winning a big pot here pre, but if you flop a set you are often winning a big pot post. This is very early on and assuming Lew has an edge over the field i think he gains more information in just flatting and trying to get a good flop then 3betting here.

This is not to say i can't see an argument for 3betting, because i can... However, we should not relate this hand specifically to the hand that Jurollo re-pops in his videa because im pretty sure that is in at least a $109 freezeout where an EP raisers range is much wider than in this case. EP raisers in a $109 vs a $5 is significantly different because in a $5 tournament i find thqat most players are limping their small pairs and sc's from EP, in a $109 they are raising their whole range.

Hope this gives some kind of explanation feel free to dispute what ive said, im interested!

It depends on the situation.  I remember a few TT hands where I repop and both are deep in tournaments and one was a cold 4 bet in a $1k.  If you point it out I can check it out but early one when everyone is pretty deep I like flatting things like Ts, Js, and Qs.  Sometimes Ks and As too.

Gonna go back and look for it later when I have a little more time, but I guess your saying you don't like playing big pots early with just a pair. Probably because at the stakes your playing it's less normal for someone to stack off 100BB's or more with hands that an OP can beat. 

MJW that's actually pretty good.

Found the thread: 

http://www.pokersavvy.com/plus/Video-30-TT-hand-vs-GhettoFabolous

This is what you said about it, and I just remember this because as I said afterward in that thread, it was something I had kinda struggled with too. 

It seems you did make that distinction about playing short in the part I bolded, as opposed to playing deeper as in the hand in question in this thread.