Extracting Value

[savagerebel]

I am going to post this hand in sections to get ideas on each street. This hand happened on the first orbit of an 18 man 5.50.

PokerStars Game #27401868216: Tournament #158094414, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/04/23 9:45:42 ET
Table '158094414 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Flamin'Aces8 (1870 in chips)
Seat 2: CHASS (1790 in chips)
Seat 4: 23 vreewijk (1130 in chips)
Seat 5: fishermanb52 (1720 in chips)
Seat 6: superraton1 (1460 in chips)
Seat 7: tschneid (1400 in chips)
Seat 8: 13MANDRAKE13 (1020 in chips)
Seat 9: stevied_70 (3110 in chips)
stevied_70: posts small blind 10
Flamin'Aces8: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Flamin'Aces8 [8s Ts]
CHASS: calls 20
23 vreewijk: folds
fishermanb52: folds
superraton1: calls 20
tschneid: calls 20
13MANDRAKE13: calls 20
stevied_70: calls 10
Flamin'Aces8: checks
*** FLOP *** [8c Td 2h]
stevied_70: checks
Flamin'Aces8:

Now what?

[Eric]

With six people in the pot you need to weed the field out. I would bet 100 into the pot of 120. The only hands that concern us are 22 and a 97/9J draw as 88 or 1010 are most likely raising here pf. You also have a very strong hand so we want to get chips in the pot.