Double Or Nothing -- Cooler On The Bubble?

[Chet Chetterson 0]

All the short stacks doubled up leaving the table with six people with similar stacks. Villain has been playing competently, but my read is not strong as I was distracting myself with other stuff (mistake, of course). Flop I make a value bet thinking I'm ahead but unsure of where the opponent was. On the turn I still felt I was ahead given Villain's line and went to end the pot right here, which should give me enough chips to finish in the top half.PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00+$0.10 Tournament, 75/150 Blinds 15 Ante (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comMP (t2420)CO (t2085)Button (t2190)SB (t3445)Hero (BB) (t2600)UTG (t2260)Hero's M: 8.25Preflop: Hero is BB with A , 10 4 folds, SB calls t75, Hero raises to t500, SB calls t350Flop: (t1090) 10 , 10 , Q (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets t550, SB calls t550Turn: (t2190) K (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets t1535 (All-In), SB calls t1535River: (t5260) 6 (2 players, 1 all-in)Total pot: t5260Results in Spoiler:

Hero 10x10xVillain 9xJx

[HighwayStar 8]

I'm 50:50 on raising this preflop in position, but that's fine. Other than possibly that, and betting 200 more or so on the flop, looks fine.

[Chet Chetterson 0]

Anyone else have thoughts?

[trystero 0]

Are you kidding bro? You got unlucky. He calls with worse tens (JT/T9), queens and tens, kings and tens (supposing he had KJ), and the odd pocket pair that can't find the fold button. How do we know he calls with worse? Because he's terrible, as evidenced by his line here.

[TrueAce13 18]

Are you kidding bro? You got unlucky. He calls with worse tens (JT/T9), queens and tens, kings and tens (supposing he had KJ), and the odd pocket pair that can't find the fold button. How do we know he calls with worse? Because he's terrible, as evidenced by his line here.

[Chet Chetterson 0]

I'll take this as my line is good, thx

[jmbreslin 0]

PF raise is insanely large. If he's going to limp-fold there, he'll fold to a 300 raise. No need to make larger raises than necessary.

[MovingIn 0]

No, he is not going to fold when it's 150 to call a preflop raise with 540 in the pot. If you minraise here from the BB, it's to build the pot.Jam the flop.If you're going to play with this stack (less than 20 BB) at this point, you either get it all in pre or get it all in on the flop (preferably the latter when blind vs blind and the SB limps), especially when you flop trips. Don't give a drawing hand a chance to draw out without paying full price.

[jmbreslin 0]

No, he is not going to fold when it's 150 to call a preflop raise with 540 in the pot. If you minraise here from the BB, it's to build the pot.

All right, so raise to 400. I still think 500 is unnecessarily large. Bloating the pot with Hero's stack will make it tougher to play postflop, unless he hits big (which he did).

[Mercury69 3]

You never know who's going to call off a shitload of chips regardless of the level of play, so I wouldn't worry about this...Just keep playing it similarly...

[jjgoldy5 0]

I would either raise enough preflop that you're committing to shoving on the flop, or keep the pot smaller so you don't kill yourself by getting check/raised when you miss. I don't like the PF raise size as its right in the middle, and makes the pot difficult to play post flop imo.This is one of those spots when I don't mind putting in a really big raise preflop just to get him to toss it. As you're on the bubble, let someone else get coolered while you pick up some blinds like this without confrontation.

[SGFULTON83 0]

I bet about the same pre-flop, bet a little more like 800 or so on the flop and then get the rest in on the turn.