Hmmm . . . . Let's see what Hero thinks of the villains
SB is aggressive but picks his spots, and seems to know what he is doing.
CO hasn't played a lot of hands, only moderately aggressive.
I note that neither guy sounds like a LAGtard or completely clueless.
As for raising preflop with pocket tens - - look and see what happened when hero raised, he gets five way action. I can see all sorts of reasons to limp TT at a table like this at least some of the time in CO and almost all of the time in the SB.
Hero should be thinking about "It" starting on the flop. SB checks, Hero c-bets and gets two calls. OK, lets range the villains with draws, kings, trip tens, rarely pocket aces and tens. No one has 33.
Hero checks the turn and it gets checked around. More likely now the villains are both playing a weaker king or a draw.
On the river, SB checks, Hero bets and CO shoves. OK, it makes perfect sense for CO to have a king like KQ or KJ. Rarely pocket tens, but possible. Looking at the villain reads CO doesn't look like a bluffer here and we have to wonder if CO held T-X, why he didn't bet the turn.
The UGLY UGLY moment comes when SB calls. Now we have to decide which is true - - - A) one of these villain is stacking off with tens full (or a crazy bluff from CO), either CO tried to bluff with tens full or SB calls a multiway pot with tens full or b) someone flops quads and somehow two player make the nut full house on a one-out river.
This is not a snap decision. Hero needs to think about this really, really hard. It is not out of the question that CO or SB super slow played his trip tens and can't make the mental switch from predator to prey. I have seen that a lot when a powerhouse preflop hand or a flopped set goes to hell and the villain can't lay it down.
{sloppy math} Hero owes a bit more than $400. The pot prior to his call is a bit more than $1,100 so Hero is risking $400 to win half of $1,500. basically a even money prop{see, sloppy}.
I think there is better than 50% chance someone got sticky stupid with trip tens. Hero's villain reads are thin, maybe someone is drunk, jet lagged or just bad - not good enough to put someone on flopped quads more than half the time. So I am calling but prepared to see bad news.
DrStrange
PS for those who are snap calling - - - I encourage you to try and think from the point of view of the villains and see how one of them could be stacking off with trip tens given the villain reads. Three way action when only two of us can have the top full house means someone is trapping or making a huge mistake. With the right villain, the huge mistake is easy to believe but here Hero needs to think about what is going on.
You know the vintage saying, "If you can't figure who the sucker is at the table, it is likely you".
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If I had to write how Hero could win this hand, here is my story.
CO limps with KQ, SB calls a buck with JT. Hero makes it $12 to go and they join the crowd.
SB flops trip tens and decides to slow play. {we don't have Hero's table image but lets say he is aggressive.} Hero bets half pot, CO can't lay down top pair for that price and SB decides to trap one more street.
SB checks the safe turn but Hero does not cooperate and bet, which frustrates SB. Not surprising CO checks since all he beats are bluffs.
River spells trouble for SB so he checks. Hero bets, CO shoves in moments and SB snap calls without thinking (and without adjusting for the dramatic revaluation of his hand.)
Viola! Hero is a winner!!!
Well it could have happened that way -=- DrStrange
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One parting thought - - this is much more of a snap call in a two way pot. It is only the fact we are three handed and someone IS the sucker, we just do not know who yet.
