Top pair facing check-raise, high stakes no limit

If you raise here, you’re basically playing for stacks a huge amount of the time, as most reasonable draws will be committed to call. So, the question you’re really answering is: how would you feel about calling an all-in re-raise?

Folding top pair in a heads up match is pretty frustrating, but I think it’s a reasonable option here. When you’re ahead, you’re often just a 60-40 favorite to a draw, and when you’re behind, you’re drawing to just a few outs. It would be easier if there were more reasonable two pair combinations that your opponent could be holding, but even on this board cutting your losses doesn’t seem like a terrible idea. I like calling and re-evaluating the turn second best and re-raising the least.

What actually happened: skier_5 shoved and dwongz called, showing a set of fives.

Once again I am “amazed” by the staff’s read here. The villian’s range could be anything from a set to a draw or even some sort of pair. Giving up top pair with decent kicker to a c/r is surely losing play at any level of poker.

I’d call and peel off a turn and play the turn in position ..

I agree with anonymous.

Call, and check most turns. If he shoves or pots youre probably beaten.

Why all these HU quizzes? I cant really relate to it at all.

Anyway, my instinct is to call and play my position on turn. If a “safe” turn comes up, I will probably stack off, depending on my gut feeling.

Tough decision. If I call and he semibluffs the turn I don’t know where I am in the hand. If I raise and he reraises I don’t know if he has a draw or a made hand. Folding is too weak so I like calling…at least I put him on a tough decision on the turn…if he’s not on a draw and a heart comes he may slow down and I’ll lose less than expected.

I actually voted fold.. but I’m a sucker — I think even in heads up play you’ve usually got time to wait for a better spot

There’s a lot of hands that beat you here.. and do you really wanna stack off and see him catch the heart flush or the straight? I don’t

alllin?

Call seems like the worst possible option. Unless a Q or J hits the river, pretty much every card is potentially bad for you, so why call? Given his raise here, he’s definitely betting the turn, and you still wont have a read, so what did the flop call get us except in a tough position for more money with still no read. This is a Raise/Fold situation. After deliberating, and denying my instinct to fold, I clicked raise. Its heads up, and I have to give myself a chance to get a read based on chip movement. I wouldnt shove. I bring it to 5500 or so, and see. That says to him, I actually have a real hand. (Not too much as if were trying to scare him off, but still reraising) If he flat calls, maybe it as a CR semi bluff with a draw or j/9 and he slows down on the turn, if he reraises all in, I might consider salvaging the remaing 6K i stand to lose and folding. He’ll still have almost 9300 against ~9500 pot, he could decide to slow down or let it go if hes on a weak pair or draw and was just testing us.

This early in HU I imagine the villain is testing your nerve. I re-raise, maybe shove. As for what really happened…. well he got lucky.

I know nothing about HU, what kind of range can we assign him after he called your 3x?

My guess would be 22-88,67s-QJs,8Ts-KJs

And he’d reraise anything bigger.

goin all in with top pair doesnt seem like a good idea to me i would put him on trips or flush draw but either way dont want to loose whole stack so i would fold

need to pay more att to Q did not read it proper opps my bade

Folding is what I’d do. If you don’t have a read on the player why risk it all on a mediocre hand. I’d play smallball for a while and feel my opponent out, see how he plays, what he re-raises with and then, maybe I’d know if his re-raise means a set or a bluff with this guy but to go call what will end up being all your chips on the turn or river with no information on how he plays….. leave that for the donkeys.

Voted “fold.” My read was that he had a set.