Three Pair, NL Cash | Daily Hand Quiz

Game type: 5-10 NL Cash Full table
Your image: Loose Aggressive
Misc notes: You’ve made big plays at opportune times to build up a stack, Player H is fairly new to the table, but has been hot and seems to be riding out a rush. The rest of the table is very passive preflop, but not so active post flop.
Your hand: 6♠7♠

Preflop: Player A min raises UTG, Player A and Player B call. Players C, D, E, and F all fold. Player G and Player H both call, and you call in your SB looking at such nice odds and the BB also calls. The flop gives you top two with

7♣6♥2♦

Flop: You lead out for 120, table folds around to Player G who flat calls and Player H also Flat calls. The turn counterfeits your hand with

2♠ You:

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Anonymous

Bet enough to represent strength but not enough to completely commit yourself to the pot.

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Mary

I am check calling, hopefully small bets. I will probably fold to a big bet unless someone shows weakness in their action. I fear A2, or perhaps pocket 6 or 7, why else would they have called a pot-sized bet on the flop.

Your math doesn’t work here 6 players saw the flop the pot is 500, 360 went in at the flop or 140 went in pre-flop that’s $23 apiece, seems wrong. Your narrative also has A calling A’s raise.

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Fred Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 10:55 am

You are awful. They could quite easily be calling with straight draws, 2 overs, 6x, 7x. Hero still has the best hand the majority of the time.

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Anonymous

lead here, its hard to beleive that someone was helped by the two, either they had you on the flop or they didnt. its hard to beleive someone on a pocket pair of 10s or lower would have checked unless they flopped a set. so your only real scary hands here are 66, 77, and jj or higher. most likely youll at least drop one of them with another bet because they are likely to be drawing

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Bill

Bet again, need to protect ourself against possible straight draws. Unless anyone called with an overpair our hand is still best, and theres no reason to think anyone has one.

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I come out with about a half pot bet right here. Bet big enough to protect your hand. I wouldn’t go all in here, becuase more than likely the only call you are going to get is going to be a full house, or a horribly slow played overpair (though I think weve all seen it before). But depending if you have anyone whos that tricky, with little strength shown preflop, I think the hand is good here. Make the fishy’s pay to see that river straight card.

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Ripp

hit it strong again. bet about 300. the 2 probably dident help anyone. even an ace-2 suited should fold to your 120 raise on the flop. the second 2 dident counterfit you hand it made it better. now some one with X7 has two pair, but you still have the better 2 pair. unless you get trapped by someone slowrolling an over pocket pair, you will either take down the pot here or get paid off nicely.

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Patrick Cherry

Before analyzing what you should do in the hand, analyze what type of hands your opponents may have.

First of all, they limped in behind several limpers. This assures you that they do not have big pocket pairs. If they had pocket pairs Aces through Jacks, they are definitely raising. No one wants to play a multiway pot with these premuim pocket pairs. Even if they had a huge pocket pair, they will definitely raise on the flop, enough slowplaying on a dangerous flop like that one.

So, what hands could they have called with on the flop?
It’s one of three possible hands:
1) straight draw (probably 8-9)
2) Overpair; but not a huge pair (something like 8-8, or 9-9)
3)Top pair good kicker (something like A-7) Even though I would expect them to raise with this hand, some conservative players may just call.

So, could the 2 help anyone?
Only if they had an overpair, the 2 gave them a better 2 pair.

If they had a draw, or top pair, the 2 could not have helped them.

Therefore, you most probably have the best hand now, and you have two options, which are both good enough.

1) Check.

At least one of the two opponents has a straight draw, you must believe. Since he didn’t make it on the turn, he will figure the board pairing is a nice chance to semi-bluff. He will probably bet the pot size.

If the other opponent has an overpair, he will probably make a bet to gain information on where he stands. He will probably bet 1/2 – 3/4 the pot size.

When one of the two opponents bet, which is very likely, you reraise the pot size. This way you make some more money and induce a bluff. This is a perfect situation to slowplay!

The downside to this option is that the other two may just check, and you give them a free card which can help their hand.

I honestly prefer this option more than leading out, but I will never try it unless I know the opponents very well. If they are tight conservative players, whom I expect will not bet and choose to see a free card, I will never slow play. I will only slowplay if I know my opponents are aggressive and will bluff at the pot. Knowing your opponent is the key for this check-raising move to succeed.

Option 2. Lead out with a bet.

I don’t really like this option, since I have to bet enough to get my opponents off their draws. If they interpret my move as a bluff, when I saw the board pairing, they might reraise me and put me in a tough spot.
I will only lead out against tight players, where I don’t want them to get a free card.

As you can see from my analysis, my action depends greatly on how much I know my opponents. This is the most important thing in a hand like this. If I have no information to my opponents’ playing styles, I will play it safe and lead out.

Check/raising here is the better/more profitable move, but it is also risky…

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