The Poker Mag

This is a very interesting hand I watched recently, and one which had a discussion thread attached to it.
Our player in question (who we shall call player K) had been dealt (10s,10h) from the position adjacent to the button. The third player after the big blind seat was the first caller, the next player raised from 40 to 120 in chips. Player K then flat calls with a stack of 3,500, the blinds fold, and the original caller matches the bet. The flop then falls (10c,6s,Ah).

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The first player to act checks, our second player checks, as does player K with his set of tens. The turn is a seemingly harmless (5c) and the first player checks, after which the second player raises it 160. Player K reraises to 480, the first player folds, and our original raiser reraises again heavily, causing all the chips to go in. The set of Tens are beaten by a set of Aces, and as the players disscussing the hand pointed out, it was very unlucky for player K, who played the hand reasonably well.

It was not an impossible situation to avoid though. If we go back to where our player raises to 120 preflop, pocket Tens are very playable, but your key danger is from an overpair. If you reraise to 500 here, your opponents reaction will tell you a great deal. In this type of game ($1 tournament) you will find that almost every player with an overpair to Tens, will then shove all in over the top when the action gets back around to them. You are still left with a tricky fold, but it is very possible due to the information you bought for 380 more chips. The result, in all probability, is that you get away from the hand with a relatively healthy 3,000 stack still intact.

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