10 handed rig game. You are in seat # 3 from the big blind. You are dealt 10 and jack suited.?

Question

everyone so far has folded to you. It is a limit game. Do you raise?

Answer 1

It depends on the kind of player you are, your read of the other players at the table, their experience levels, the stakes, and your table image.

You have four players to act after you and then the blinds. Jack Ten suited is considered about 21/169 possible starting hands with about a 40% win ratio.

If you call you will disguise the strength of your hand and should you catch a nice flop you will be in a nice position. Of course in limit it is very hard to price people out of the pot in low stakes games, so a stubborn person could stay in and out draw you even if you catch the flop nicely.

If you raise you are representing a strong hand (depending on your table image). If you start leading out on the flop you may push out some people on a weak draw. You may also get a few people to fold pre-flop so that the pot becomes less contested. By showing strength before the flop you may have a better chance of taking down the pot later on. Although limit tends to have more calling stations than no limit.

I'd probably raise it, but it's a very situational question and hard to answer without more information.

Answer 2

Your question does not have enough information to answer. Are you the big stack or a small stack, is the table loose or tight, what are the limits, how does the table see you, was there a big pot or was their a big bluff recently, and are the people in front of you rocks or are they loose. But in general i would fold a hand like j-10 suited for a couple of reasons. Number 1 being that it is a weak drawing hand that is just to likely dominated by other hands, with it being a limit ring game you can wait for a better hand then j-10 to raise with, also a raise isn't going to get the blinds to fold. Even though you may have position on callers in the blind, you didn't even have anyone in the pot in front of you to justify you playing a drawing hand, i like to just call with 3-4 other players in the pot so i get good value on my hand.

Answer 3

It's tempting to call in a limit game with this hand, but the position is awfull, and it is very likely that this will get raised behind you at least once so calling actually means you are committing yourself to calling at least one raise.

Raising with this han in a limitgame is slightly better as it will more likely have the next potential raiser just call you instead of raising himself. Furthermore it will give the impression of you holding another hand.
But this beeing a limitgame you are robbed of the option to buy the pot on the flop should you miss - thus making your hand pretty much worthless unless you flop a flush, 4 to the flush, topstraight or at least an openended draw.

So in my opinion that hand is an obvious fold from that position.

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Answer 4

That all depends on how tight or loose your opponants are. If they are loose then fold. If they are tight then raise. 10 J will only net you money if there are a lot of people in the hand or stealing blinds.

Answer 5

As a rule of thumb, I would view this as a hand that I would want to see a flop before really sinking cash into the hand. Raising would be only for the purpose of having your opponents put you on a different hand. Get to the flop as cheaply as possible.

Answer 6

depends how many people are still in the game if its just 2 then raise
otherwise just call
if u realy think another person has a good hand then fold otherwise just go the first 2

Answer 7

this is a trick question..you won the hand.. You're in the big blind, and everyone folded to you (even the small blind). So you won the small blind.. and you can't raise yourself.....nice try man

Answer 8

I would RAISE. That way if you get a flop with a draw you still might win the hand without catching it by playing strong post-flop.

Answer 9

Raise, especially if the blinds are tight.

Answer 10

What is a rig game? Do you mean RING game? You fold.