Daily Hand Quiz

You’re getting worse than 2-1 here, and your stack is still very playable if you walk away now. You do have a loose image, but you’ve shown substantial strength in this hand.

It’s pretty unlikely that you’re facing complete air here. Against just about any hand with the Ac in it, you’re a coinflip. Same for most combo draws. The problem is that villian makes the same kind of shove with just about all made hands as well, except for possibly the nut or second nut flush. The only made hand you’re not basically dead to is a single pair with no club.

2-1 just doesn’t cut it under those conditions. I think you’d need to be getting closer to 3.5-1 for this to be a call.

What actually happened: You called and your opponent showed KQ with no club. Their hand held up and they won the pot.

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Easy fold

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trivial fold

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fold.. but only after rolling your eyes a couple times at yet another monochrome board

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The 29% who voted call are encouraging – this is why poker is still worth playing. Almost 1/3 of the population plays terrible!

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Let’s all learn to spell “villain” please!

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This is an easy fold. If I had the J of clubs, it would be a tough decision because either my opponent likely has the Q or A of clubs, or he has a smaller made flush which takes away two of my outs to hit a higher flush with my J, so I’d likely still fold. The fact that the opponent showed KQ with no clubs is a rare case in this situation IMO, most of the time your opponent will show you at least one club in his hand and/or some combo draw.

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I hate folding here, but its a must!

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making a continuation bet into a flush board is a must regardless of whether or not you hit it, so the bet of 300 was perfect. as soon as you hit any resistance, just expect that at best youre racing. very rarely is it a stone-cold bluff.

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I dont even like open raising with this hand. This is the hand that pros call the amateur hand…it is very weak.

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Chase, I’ve lost a lot of money yesterday night against an opponent who held KJs, (he called my 4BB raise, then my pot-bet at flop and turn, and he made a flush at the river)
That’s poker.

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Whether you think they’re on a flush draw or not, its more a question of risking your entire tournament equity with this hand. In a sit and go such as this you would let it go to live another day.

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Jezzta is right. At this stage of the tourney you probably need to be a 70+ % favourite to entertain a call for all your chips for it to be +EV.

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Too risky to risk your whole stack so early in a tourney. He could have 55, 22, KQ. If I had the J of clubs maybe I call but that doesn’t help you if he’s shoving with an A of clubs.

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