Good move/Bad Move?

[lockpull]

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?

[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.

[lockpull]

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

66-99 depends on position and reads.

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.

[bjsaust]

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).