Good move/Bad Move?

I will try to give as much info as I can on this but this is my first post like this so be gentle.

$3+.30 knockout tourney at Full Tilt with 90 players starting. We are down to 13 people left with top 9 getting paid. My current position was 9th. Blinds are at $500-$1000 with a $125 ante at a full table ($2625 in pot). My stack is 10,500 with the average being around 35,000. Action folds to me when I have pocket 10's on the button. SB has 7500 left after blinds and antes and BB has 31,000. I go all in. SB folds and BB calls with A8o. What I am asking is if there was better way I could have played it. Maybe 2.5-3x raise preflop then moving in when no card higher than 10 came. By going all in, did I make it an easier call than if I had just raised then pushed on the flop? I know you are not supposed to judge by hand results, but what made me question was them hitting a flush when a heart came on turn and river. If I had min raise-push flop, he would have had to call with high card A and a runner runer flush draw.

Another situation that I run into is when I get 66-99 in early position at the final table with an average stack. Fold/Call/Raise?

TT shove is perfectly correct, ask yourself how many flops dont have a card higher than T.

66-99 depends on position and reads.

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Originally Posted by bjsaust

TT shove is perfectly correct, ask yourself how many flops dont have a card higher than T.

66-99 depends on position and reads.

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Please tell me if my thinking is off...... but there are 16 cards that are higher than 10 and 32 that are not. So assuming the opponet has 1-2 of them it would be between 43-50% an overcard will hit on the flop.

My second question was a lot shorter than it should have been. (And a little high on the cards that run me into trouble) To be more accurate....MTT/ 6-8 people left/UTG-UTG+2 with 33-66/ less than 10-15 BBs left (and let's say bottom 3 in chip stack) against a mainly tight table.

And thank you for posting back.

Heh, I dunno the maths, but I do know lots of flops have something higher than a T, so putting in 30% of our stack and folding would be terrible. Get your money in while you're probably ahead (which you did).

I'd fold in those spots with 33-66, we're crushed by any calling ranges and arnt that desparate yet. Take a look in the SNG forum at the stickies and read the threads on ICM (yeah this is MTT, but ICM is the key).