Daily Hand Quiz

You are beat pretty much every time, unless villains is a maniac with a history ahainst you.

The best of you draw is an inside draw, only 4 outs. Villain is likely to either have a set or an overpair, while in his view you could easily have a set as well. So he aint going to stack off with an overpair if you hit str8, and if he has the set he will stack you when you hit two pair/trips.

So dont waist you chips on drawy hands early in a MTT imo. That is why SC are no good in tours.

fold.

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I wouldn’t call an inside straight draw with two clubs on the flop a solid draw. We have a pair of fives, ok top pair but no kicker. We are currently behind or flipping if opp has two club overs meaning we could only have three clean outs. We don’t have the odds to call for the turn and we don’t have a strong enough hand to raise. I fold. I don’t mind the pre flop call with SC and small blinds though.

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I voted call.

If we put opp on an overpair, we have to put him on 77-99 or AA. Anything inbetween would probably have re-raised preflop to try setup headsup instead of threeway. 66 is unlikely given our 6, 55 is even less likely, 22-44 would probably fold facing a raise and a call, tho we dont have info on opp being too tight, so its possible. Anything inbetween would probably have re-raised preflop to try setup headsup instead of threeway. Thats a pretty specific range, although likely.

A5 is possible, but at least then there is no flush draw and also its a likely hand opp can easily fold, if we bet on turn or river.

Most likely hand in my view is two club face cards. So I’m calling and if turn is not a club and is lower than J, I’m betting (too bad the only real bet I can make is pot size allin, but so be it). Fact that there was an original raiser who folded gives us hope that very likely couple of face cards are already folded.

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Ups, one sentence got reapeated there by mistake. Soory.

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I think the biggest mistake was calling preflop. Suited connectors (especially ones this small) usually only play well against multiple limpers. Here, only one person has entered the pot, and that person has raised. If you were the first to act, opening with a raise isn’t a bad move, so long as it’s not your default play. It’s a good way of varying your play. But in this situation, you definitely should not have called pre-flop.

So we get to this point. Top pair, gutshot and weak kicker. With two clubs on the board, you have about 3.5 outs with the gutshot, 2 outs with the 5′s and 2.5 outs with the remaining sixes (you can’t count the 6c and 3c as full outs because of the possible flush draw). Assuming we are beat at this point, you have eight outs, which means you need about 5-1 just to call. Are the implied odds there? If a 6 comes, they might be there, but if you hit a 5 or a 3, you probably aren’t going to make any more money. I say fold and move on.

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If I’m already in there raising with 6 5, then I hit the flop and bet it (which I hardly do anyway), I would call the reraise. I have top pair and the draw. But like I said, I don’t usually raise with the suited connectors because of this type of situation where you can get hurt bad.

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I voted fold … the pot odds are not there … in my view hero has 5 clean outs – 2 5s and 3 3s … a 6 may help the v, so I’m excluding those … that’s about 20% to hit on the turn … need at least 4-1 for a call. Agree with most others, would have folded p/f.

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The pre-flop call isn’t horrible since you have position on the raiser. Out of position and out of the blinds it would have been a definite mistake.

I would fold in this spot. The villain likely has an overpair or two club overcards, or perhaps even 67 for a better straight draw. The only hope you have is that the villain is bluff raising with unpaired paint, but even if he is do you want to play a big pot where half the deck is scary as hell? Even two random overcards aren’t in bad shape against your hand.

If the villain had been super aggressive you might be able to make the case for shoving and getting drawing hands and perhaps 66-99 to fold, but that’s an extreme play that I would not try in this spot.

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Fold.

When you go into a hand with 6h5h, you are not looking to flop middle pair and an inside straight draw. You are hoping to flop a flush or atleast a chance at hitting a flush. You probed with your initial bet and the raise means you are beat. Fold.

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