Daily Hand Quiz

I think you’re quite unlikely to be up against a made hand here given the action on the turn and the board. It’s also very unlikely that the river helped your opponent – if anything, it might have counterfeited the couple of made hands your opponent might have taken this line with.

I think you’re very likely to be up against a weak pair that has gone into call-down mode and hopes that you’re on AK, AQ or a smaller pair. You can extract a good amount of value from those hands with a bet that they feel compelled to call, but a bet that’s still big enough that they can imagine you might be bluffing. I think shooting for about 480,000 or so will do the trick – it will be hard for a JT or T9 kind of hand to bail in the hands of an average player.

What actually happened: You checked behind and the BB showed J2 for top pair.

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Value bet. 400-500k will compell any jack to call

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I’d like to get some more value here. And betting the smaller amount is just begging for a call here. Check-calling all the way looks really weak and if you push here it looks a lot more like a bluff induced by that weakness. He can still call and continue in push-fold mode if he loses or have a big stack with a good shot at the big bucks. If he were shorter stacked I would go for the smaller bet.

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First off limping here is horrible with blinds 30k/60k you have to raise getting repopped with blinds at this level with a button range from SB will happen with a wide range so even if you repop back and he folds a 300k+ pot is what you be scooping. I put him all in on river he only has a 200k here and he is not folding if he called two bets with a J here. so betting half the pot over or under puts him all in the pot on the turn is over 1.2m

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gimmee a break there is $1.1 in the pot, you have $833 left and he has $1.9 left

this is an automatic shove, if he’ll call any bet he’ll call all of it because he still has over a mil left anyway

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I don’t agree…the shove is a powerful move and may scary a jack without a good kicker…I want to be paid…

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I voted bet more than half pot, as I would probably shove all in.

I really like that river, if it had not shown I would consider checking behind.

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I miss read stack sizes I thought BB had 775k

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I voted to bet over half pot but a check would be ok. You should be just happy your aces didn’t get cracked and knocked out of the tourney for making a bone head move of limping in with aces.

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lol go the dude who kept playing j2.

i dunno what it’s like playing at this kinda level, but my experience is that top pair no kicker hands tend to lose a ton of money.

he really should’ve folded after you bet the turn.

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I think this is one of the easiest quizzes posted, its obviously good poker to just make a value bet on the river, your image is tight, the chances that your behind are practically non-existent and he just called all the way down because he isnt that confident so a shove is not that great.

bet 400k-500k imo

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What if you bet 400k and BB checkraises you all in? You can’t really get away any more even if it suddenly dawns upon you that this is exactly how someone would play T8 if he put you on flopped top/two pair.

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Agree with catcher – could also be 66.
I’m fine with checking the river and taking what we’ve already got. The last thing I want is to be check raised for my life on the river because at that point I have to call and I know I’m likely dead.

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Plus, ” the chances that your behind are practically non-existent” must be the most common last words in tournament poker .

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If you never risk to be check-raised you’ll never value bet

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Am I the only one who notices that you only have 294k left – you have no choice BUT to bet all-in for under half the pot

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The chances that he has a six are extremely low and if he had two pair then the river just gave you two pair as well so depending on how confident you feel or how much you want to win….a check could provoke him into going all in to steal the pot…you could trap him or you could go all in and he could think your bluffing and call on a lower pair…or he could just fold

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If we had the villain covered I would certainly bet here. Also, if we had some kind of a read on him, I would consider betting. And yes, I agree that the hand so far very much looks like a weak pair hoping to get a cheap showdown. However, at this point I would absolutely HATE myself if villain shoved after my river bet as I would have to call all-in for my tournament life knowing that very likely I’m dead. 838k is not a great stack to continue with, but it’s better that than a rail. Squeezing that last 400k is a bit too slim value for me for potentially risking going bust here. But your mileage may vary, of course.

And by virtue of limping our aces, T8 is unfortunately exactly as likely a holding as JT in our opponent’s hand.

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Shoving makes you look desperate and may induce a call faster than a value bet. That’s what I’d do.

Limping with AA is asking for trouble.

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I think checking on the end would a safe play, but the right play b/c you could have been up against a set and now they filled up and could go broke. i think checking and take what’s in the pot would be a smart play just incase you might be up against a set that turn into a boat. There’s enough money in the pot to see if you have the best hand. Anywayz limping with aces this late in a tourney is a smart play anywayz.

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The BB had 10 9 in my opinion giving him the pair and the draw and if your table image is that of fairly tight then a bet of no less than 500K and but no more than 600K is the play… it looks like ur scared to bubble but it also smells of a missed steal. A shove here wont be called and a check raise is the best scenario you could hope for. A check is the wrong play.

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FFS, am I still the only one who notices that you only have under 300k left on the river? Great quiz……

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Make a value bet. There’s no such thing as shoving for value here. Even J9 will fold most likely, only 8T is calling. If you get check raised all in, you call and slap yourself for not raising preflop. But if you’d ever fold there getting about 5:1 with aces overpair (to a c-raise all in), you lose alot.

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i think a check will be the best option, cause when you check you will know what yout oppent has played and you can use this information for later play against him.
when you bet and he reraises all-in what will you do? call when he has floped the straight? he was the BB and gets the flop for free!

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