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[Rocketwadster]

$10+1 Pot Limit Hold-em TourneyAbout 200 players, down to about 65 players left, I just got moved to this table. Blinds are at $200/$400, I have just under $2000 chips left (pretty close to average if I remember correctly). I should note that I usually don't play in Multi's with this high a buy-in due to my limited bankroll (only about 4 or 5 of them to date on this site, finished 14th in one to give me a pretty good payday, but nothing spectacular).In position 2, I get 10 10 . Brand new table, so I don't know anything about these players. I opt to raise the pot, I get two callers (small and big blind). I'm not happy at this point.Flop comes 10 6 3 Sweet, I flopped trips. I raise the pot (which puts me all-in), to hopefully eliminate any draws. Small blind calls, big blind folds. Hmmm...what am I up against? A straight or flush draw (small blind barely had me covered, so he was practicaly all in as well)?Turn comes 4 River is 2 Can someone please tell me how else to play this hand (it is in the bad beats section, so obviously I lost :cry: , but I haven't shown you to what yet). I did consider checking after the flop, but as I said I wanted to eliminate any drawing hands if I could.I finished 64th.I called this my daily story as it seems like 85 percent of my multi's I lose with a monster hand that got sucked out to win.

[Swift_Psycho]

Nah, you played it correctly. I almost asked you why you didn't move in pre-flop, then realized it was pot-limit, not no limit. You had practically nothing left post-flop anyway, just move the rest of it in right there because you don't want it to get checked around and give the others a free card that might make them pick up a draw to stay in the hand. Even though you have a strong hand, you'd much rather they folded than stay in with any straight draw or flush draw they might pick up on the turn because you just don't have enough chips left to make anyone incorrectly call you to try and suck out. You must play tens with that short a stack relative to the blinds, so folding pre-flop isn't really much of an option either. I feel your pain, but at least take solace in the fact that you did nothing wrong. Good luck in your future tourneys.

[Rocketwadster]

In all the posts I read when someone replays a hand, they keep saying don't tell us the answer. Only one response to this post, so I guess nobody cares. The villain in this story had pocket aces, with an ace of diamonds of course. It should have been his bad beat story not mine (aces lost to tens), but the poker gods decided to make a flush out of my trips. :evil: