Top two pair on the turn, no limit cash game

Game type: No limit cash, 6 max
Your image: You haven’t done much your first few orbits at the table
Misc notes: Player B has been raising about 90% of hands preflop
Your hand: A♠T♦

The Setup: After watching Player B raise every single hand preflop for 2 orbits, you decide that your hand looks OK when B raises the minimum preflop. The table folds to the SB, who calls, and you call. The flop looks great:

A♣8♣10♠

… and when the SB checks, you decide to get tricky and check as well. Player B foils your plans by checking behind, and the turn brings the 4♠. Now the SB leads out for the size of the pot – $60 – and the action is on you. The original preflop raiser, Player B, is still to act behind. What’s your move?

8 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

joe

I raise here to about 170 because of the fact that a made set such as 88 or 10 10 would of raised the flop if played correctly because of two cards in the flush and straight zone and it is a fairly coordinated flop so chances are someone connected with it. The only hand im worring about here is 4 4 plus someone might string along now with a hand such as A rag of spades

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John B.

I’ll re-raise the pot. No use waiting for SB to make a move and there’s two flush draws out there now. Make it more expensive for him or Player B to call/chase.

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Mary

i’m raising to 120, 10% of my money. I will probably fold to a reraise putting them on the set. I would have bet my two pair strong with the two clubs, and coordinated 8-10 on board.

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lespat

I am calling and hoping a makes a big play – they have chips and maybe I can get them to make a big mistake here by chucking 200-300 at this pot. If I raise here, I am only gettting a small pot with my big hand.

Also, I would have led out on the flop for a smaller amount. build a pot. checkraises suck.

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CheffyChef

I’m calling, because when you play this hand online, there’s going to be 99% chance that someone at that table is going to go for the pot, overbet, then you take it down.

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Joe

To me, this is a no brainer. You have to make a raise here and take the hand down with your top 2 pair. If someone wants to draw out, they’re going to have to pay. Betting also lets me know where I stand in the hand.

Also, againt an agressive player who’s been raising every hand, you need to make a stand or he’ll just keep running you down.

Also, too many people when commenting about these DHQ hands have “trips paranoia.” Of course you need to consider it, but trips are so well hidden that you can’t go crazy worrying about it every hand.

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Stef

I’d take a stab at a raise here. The 4 doesn’t give anyone anything… and the odds are in my favor that no one is sitting there with 2 pr.. and if they are, they would have have planted a huge raise. Draws dont bother me here as much as someone sneaking in with trips. Yeah.. I have ‘trips paranoia’ lol

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drhoho

A missing info is how agressive player A usually is postflop.
I would have bet on flop. Not a scary bet, just half pot. If I am lucky and the agressive player has any A or is in a bluffing mode, I will get a raise. Pays of better than checkraising, and doesnt give free cards.
But in this spot, you gotta raise. SB migth have some kind of A he slowplayed on flop, or a low one he didnt dare betting. In that case, you migth get action by an inferior hand. And anyway you cant give them free cards for draws.
If SB reraises off course you have to consider whether he hit tribs, but I would probably choose to guess not. A hand like AJ, A9, A8 or A4 is just as likely.

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