God I feel like such a noob asking this, it's just that everytime I see it I initally feel like I have a decent hand, but am unsure of what to do.

I know that J 10 is a good drawing hand in that it can make the nut straight four different ways. Assume were playing a 9 handed sng with equal stacks and low blinds. What is the optimal play or situation?

Do you limp from any position?
Do you want a family pot, a 3-5 way pot?
Do you ever raise preflop with it?
Is it worth it to call a typical raise?
Do you only play it suited?

I understand that there are many many variables to each hand and that it's impossible to cover each one here and that once you see the flop, you'll often times miss completely and muck.

I'm just interested on how everyone approaches this hand and what goes into their preflop decisions.

Thanks

Good Luck

I wouldn't open limp, unless its a loose passive table. It's a nice drawing hand, and I find it works way better in position, then it does w/o it. I personally don't like getting headsup with it either.

First of these posts so lets see how it rolls..


1)Do I limp from any position?

-No. In a T/A game, it's probably a mistake to limp from any early position. Raising is a possibility, depending on your reads on your opponents, especially the SB/BB.
-In a LPAS game it's got good value from any position provided you get a strong enough hand. In these hands people typically don't raise big hands large enough and continue way too long with them so that if you get two pair/trips/flush/strait you will get paid off.

2) Family pot?
-You either want 4-5 people in the pot for equity on your monster hands you'll get, or you want to be heads up and rely on your reads. If you're heads up, especially in position, you can take down more than your fair share of hands without hitting. Of course, in a TAG, this is your reason for raising with ATC because you'll usually be heads up.

4)- Call a raise?
Against passive opponents and tight opponents, yes. If you're extremely deep-stacked, then yes. The key is you need to get paid off if you hit big, or you need to be able to take the pot away. It's all position/read dependent of course.

In general, It's a late position hand. I somewhat disagree with the previous poster just because you can take so many pots away from AK/AQ, but that's just my style. Best of luck!