Daily Hand Quiz

checking here is a stupid play. For one there is 6 other players in the pot. Many of whom are deep stacked. With that said any card that comes off (except a Q or J) risks you losing your stack to any higher set or straight. The only safe cards that can come off would reason to be an K,J, or Q. J- u possibly double up.K or Q- they may make two pair? If any capable playe is willing to play a large pot after almost any turn card they will have u dominated

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This is a bad check, you are not only letting people with the small open ended and gut shot draws in for free but you are allowing the pot to stay small. When hitting that set you want to try to get as much in the pot as possible. If noone has a Jack, two pair or any of the draws then thats tough luck, but don’t allow someone to catch a gutshot and then possibly stack you or keep you from getting value on your hand.

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Small pairs are very difficult hands to play especially out of position. In full ring games with many callers you must be very carefull and not to lose against higher sett!The main danger here is sett of jacks. This danger is not only one: somebody with 4,5; A,4; A,5; A,6; waiting for straight.With J,3; J,2; and 2,3; waiting for full house. All this means that we canneither slowplay nor bet weak if we want winn a big pot. We mustnt forget one thing: If we want winn a big pot with our small pair in this case, on a such flopp we cannot do that without a big risk!We can trapp someone with topp pair and topp kicker but we can lose against someone with set of jacks!Pot sized raise as first and if we are reraised can we fold – we will not lose our whole stack: one with sett of jacks must reraise, his also afraid of straight draws!Others with topp pair and similar wold just call. If a safe card come on the turn we can proceed with causion what to do next.Best regards!Boris

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Raise 1/4 pot

You show some agression, but any player with J2…JK…JQ…JA…will gonna re-raise. You, with the Set, have possibility to do Quads, Full House, or stay with the Set and win over the 2 Pairs, and OverPairs =D

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Easiest halfpot bet ever. Theres 6 other players in the pot! I don’t think we need to explain this one.

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Our strategy here should be all about trying to win a huge pot, which means getting someone with an inferior hand to put in way too much money.

Take it one step further, and we need to play in a way that makes it hard to put us on a clear range. If our actions are murky and hard to interpret, we’ve got a much better shot at getting Jx, a draw, etc. to pay us a fortune than if we telegraph our cards right away.

For that reason, I don’t like leading out on the flop. It narrows our range incredibly, basically saying that we’ve got either two-pair, an OESD or a set.

Do that, and the weak Jx fold, as do the second pairs (88, 99, etc.) and the Ax or 2-broadway guys trying to hit something. We’re likely to be left with one caller at best. And he’s looking to keep the pot small. So our ability to build the pot further is very constrained.

If we check, odds are that someone has enough of the flop to take a stab at it. The chances of Jx in one of those remaining six hands is about 50% — and on a board like this, top pair has to make a move for it. An aggressive second pair might, too. Or a button hoping for a steal.

Then we can c/r … and our status is much harder to read. A c/r is very consistent with a semibluff. It might be a set, or two pair, or it might be an outright bluff, attempting to capitalize on an opponent’s nerves. We’re harder to read. Once people have put money into a pot, it’s harder for them to let go.

Yes, if we check the flop, we invite more people to take us on, and there’s always a small chance that we’ll be sorry. But the risk/reward is too favorable for us to be playing scared.

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