Good evening TPE,

It's been a while as I went on hiatus to take some tests and straighten out a few things I had going on.  I'm happy to be reading these posts again.

I am wondering how you all might adjust the range you put a villain on when he is the very big stack and does this.  The question of what I should do is one I wouldn't mind opinions on, but I'm more interested in what range you would put him on.  I'll explain my thinking after the hand history.

Small 1$ rebuy turbo MTT, winner taking $58, 10 places paid, 7 players left (edited as before I wasn't sure if there were 7 or 14 left).

Merge Network $150 Gtd – [+R, Turbo] No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t2000.00/t4000.00 Blinds + t400.00 – 7 players – View hand 2509137
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter

smallfry13 (UTG): BB = 46.9, t187507
Lucid66 (UTG+1): BB = 7.2, t28742
Hero (MP): BB = 8.9, t35450
pfunk777 (CO): BB = 27.1, t108586
volunteer1998 (BTN): BB = 22.6, t90236
StoshNJag (SB): BB = 25.0, t99905
pokerdan2 (BB): BB = 4.6, t18574

Pre Flop: (t8800) Hero is MP with T T
smallfry13 raises to t12533.00, Lucid66 folds

That is all.  What range do you put him on?  I only have 47 hands on him and not much read but he is being rather loose.  VPIP 37%, PFR 23% 3bet 21.4% and limp 10%.

I don't know what to make of the fact that he's the very big stack.  That's my main quesiton about impact on his range.  Do we trust that the big stack isn't spewy if we don't have a read, or do we suspect that they may be bullying, and adjust the range we assign?

What about that sizing?  I wish could know if he had 3xed it before this. It makes me think he's only playing strong pairs or maybe garbage.

Then there's his being UTG.

I feel like all three of these aspects maybe have one simple impact on his range, but in combination they make it more unpredictable.  Of course I may be over thinking this.  Of course maybe there is no overthinking, as long as you don't time out.

Thanks for reading, hope you've all been crushing.

Have a good evening.