February 11, 2012

Daily Hand Quiz


Game type: 9 handed sit and go, no limit
Your image: Somewhat tight
Stage of tourney: In the money, final 3
Avg stack: 4500
Misc notes:
Your hand: A♦T♦

The Setup: You’ve made it to the money of a single table sit and go. You’ve been playing fairly tight after suffering a monster beat at the hands of the big stack a few orbits back.

Preflop, the big stack raises to 600 and you decide to flat call with A 10. You flop the nut flush draw:

Q♦6♣5♦

…and you’re first to act. What’s your play?


8 COMMENTS  (Jump to comment form)

Sam


I don’t see why you say that you don’t have enough chips to make a check-raise. The pot is 1300, if he bets 1000 and we raise him all-in, you still have fold equity.
I voted check-raise. You have a tight image, so he might interpret the check as a weakness and steal the pot and he would have to give up the hand if he really has nothing.
If we’re called or he bets all-in, we have enough outs to win the pot.
And if he checks back, you get a free card which is never bad when you’re drawing and you have the possibility to bet on the turn.

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Owns


In this situation, it’s easy to go all-in.

a) You’re already in the money.
b) If you go All-In, you’re forcing the other players to make a tough decision. In most cases, they will fold unless they have the nuts.
c) If you get called and hit, you have a good shot at winning the whole thing.

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_Owner_


well, I would have went all in preflop in this spot…

But as played, i agree with Owns all in on the flop seems best….

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Had


In my opinion it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to push all in here especially if you’ve played tight all game long. Youre not in trouble blind wise so why push on a hand you would be behind if called. If you feel like you can outplay the other two players why just push and hope you get lucky?

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Mary


I say, pot size raise because you don’t tell us anything about the button previous play. If he was pushing preflop with his position he’ll let it go and I win, if he has any hand he’ll probably put me in, and I’m okay with that.
I agree that going all-in preflop after the raise would have been a better move. I think that checking is not a good option, what if he checks a pair of Queens here? You’re faced with same questions next round, no new info and another card, what if it’s the 6 of diamonds that falls? Is that your flush or his boat?

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Anonymous


Why is everyone so eager to go all in preflop? The only way you will be dominating is if someone calls with smaller ace or has a 10. Even with two live card youre not that great of a favorite. It absolutely makes no sense

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El Chupa Cabra


I chose to bet small, and the reason I chose this was because the opponent expects you to go all-in with a weak hand if your already in the money and on tilt cause of the bad beats you’ve taken. In this scenario you may actually project more strength by making a “call me” bet as opposed to throwing in all your chips in a desperate attempt to make him fold. Besides if your opponent raised you preflop there is a chance that he may have a queen in his hand which is yet another reason to throw out the smaller “test” bet.

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Anonymous


Checkraise, because you may have a little bit fold equity and if you get called you and win the hand you will have a nice chiplead. At this stage of the sit and go your goal has to be finishing in 1st place.

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.780% 43.78% 00.00% 37708 0.00 { AdTd }
Hand 1: 56.220% 56.22% 00.00% 48422 0.00 { 55+, AQs, KQs, QTs+, AQo, KQo, QTo+ }

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