Daily Hand Quiz

It’s a little tough to put your opponent on a hand here. You’d expect a pair bigger than TT to have tried to get all the money in on the flop. An out of position float with two overs feels weird, and there’s no flush draw on the flop.

That leaves us with smaller pairs, sets, and pairs / weak draws (think A4 or 56 type hands). I don’t see folding here, so the money is probably getting all in versus a set no matter how we play. The rest of his range has some equity versus your hand (probably about 20%). However, most of that range will probably fold if you raise again.

If you call, that puts 5200 in the middle and leaves your opponent with under half the pot in their stack. It’s going to be very difficult for them to fold the river (or not take another stab) with most of that range. Let’s say when you let them see the river, you pick up an extra 1500 in value you’d lose if you raised the turn. Compare that to the 20% in equity they have in the pot when you call, and there’s a slight edge to just calling.

However, if you think your opponent calls a shove on the turn with any decent part of their weak holdings, that erases the edge rather quickly. With a chance to double your chips sitting in the pot and an opponent leading with a third of their stack, I’m going to go ahead and raise here, even though it pretty much turns my hand face up.

What actually happened: You shoved and your opponent folded.

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Doesn’t make sense to me that a set would flat the reraise then lead the turn on a dry board. It is either a scared overpair that wants to end it or a club draw with the ace. Assuming that we can’t fold this the call is the natural follow through to our deceptive play to try and get opp to shove the riv.

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Shove it. I have no idea what he has, but its probably not as good as what I have right now. if I flat call now, Im calling the river regardless of he gets there or not, which means any card could be deadly for me and I have no idea. Im happy enough with this pot to take it down now or induce a mistake from him. Its not worth risking letting him back into a hand. With a pot this big and the not-much-more we get for putting our stack at risk by flatting, I think shove to protect.

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No hands that are beating you make sense here. Low pairs that made sets would have probably limped, then checked the flop to get more money in. Straight draws (like A4 or A5) probably wouldn’t lead here. 54 is extremely unlikely, though not impossible. AA would have reraised your flop raise.

I think you are way ahead here, which means it’s time to build the pot. A shove gives villain about 2-1. That’s ok, but a min raise is almost impossible to fold to, and gets us closer to taking all his chips. Min raise, and get it in on the river.

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I’d think and call…continuing the act.
raise/bet the river what ever comes….hope not an A. The most part of the time we are far ahead here…so no need a lot of protection. Instead offer him the chance of a final stab at the river…maybe he is greedy enough

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should have never flat called the raise pre flop……

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i mean it’s not bad to flat there, i bet the guy had K6 or something like that.

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I’m hoping that that 10 hit him right between the eyes and his kicker is a picture. He’ll feel quite secure in calling your all-in and you’ll snap him.

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I would start masturbating myself and let the hand time out.

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master baiter Reply:
April 9th, 2012 at 3:21 pm

lol, this should be a standard option with every quiz

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One important factor to consider, I’ll call it an intangible. I seem to take a larger number of bad beats early on when tables are full and there aren’t many cards left in the deck. I wouldn’t mind to much if villain got the chance to see the river card, but he’s gonna have to pay for it.

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