1/1 game, 8 hands at table
hero image: nit asian. showdown JJ twice in last hour or two. folded AQo once from EP to a 3-bet, and was accurately guessed by the player sitting next, I think some have figured out from my reaction (was a bit surprised and unprepared).

Hero was at UTG+1 but straddled to 2 so first actions. hero has a stack of 70 (started with 50 but prepared 300 in my pocket for the session)

V1: 2 seats to the left of hero, sit down for less than 1 hour but seems loose in general. limp-call more than 3 times and didn't show any strength post flop. stack covers hero.

V2: loose aggressive, had a bad run a few hands ago and stack down to 25ish now. He appears prepared to reload very soon. CAI with 55 about an hour ago and stood to the end.

Actions in the hand:
hero got TT. the old guy sitting next saw straddle and jokingly asked hero to raise to 4, kind of laughing at hero's too nit image (only played 3 hands in 2.5 hours, but actually I was just hand dead..). After he asked, hero smiled and said "fine 4 it is then". My intention was to either block too aggressive actions from others, especially there's a strong LAG with deep stack at btn. also don't mind if the short stack LAG guy 3 bet on tilt (and he doesn't seem to be good LAG anyway).

next old guy was surprised and folded, consufingly. V1 raised to 12, V2 immediately shove his remaining 25, others fold back to hero.

My thinking: part of my plan was to catch the V2's marginal hand assuming he's on tilt. V1 was a bit concerning, as the guy was not particularly active raising and usually just call with bad cards. However, his stack is just 120ish, so I figure if I shove my 70, he may very likely fold his hand and leave me alone with V1. After all, I don't need to gamble to win their chips but he is possible to call with 66-99, ATs too.

Welcome to the forum.

I edit your post to remove the results from it. We discourage putting them into your first post of a thread, as it will bias what people think of the hand.

Best of luck to you while you're here,
irtm

Good point. Thanks!


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With s stack of 70, facing a reraise to 25, its close. It's a way ahead, way behind situation. I would push AI and if you felt, reload.

Given your stack and hand reshoving is probably the best option. You should be happy to go heads up against V2 but letting V1's stick around is bad. You will be committed on most flops and have little idea where you stand against V1.

A straddle at UTG+1 that forces you to act first is terrible. Your putting more money in for the privilege of having the worst starting position.

I didn't straddle. It's the guy at Utg straddle to 2. I was open raising to 4, in the hope of creating a small multiway pot first of all.

If the table will let you consistently get away with doing that then it's a reasonable strategy. It's mostly turning your TT into a set mining operation because there are few other boards that are good for TT. If you can do it cheaply enough though then it lets you play your middle pairs OOP easily and profitably.