Daily Hand Quiz

The stacks are a little awkward, but I think you can go ahead and shove. If you do, your opponent will be getting about 9k for a call of 6800, and it’s going to be tough for them to fold any decent pair or ace. The shove would be better if they were a little shorter, but it should get all the money in enough to make it the correct play. A small three bet is transparent, and a call is unlikely to get you much action on the flop except from hands that would have called your shove anyhow.

What actually happened: You called and the flop came KQ4, all diamonds. You checked and UTG+1 checked. The turn brought a blank and you checked again, he checked behind. You tried a third check on a K river and your opponent checked TT behind.

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I’m shoving it all day, every day, twice on Sundays.

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I want money in the pot! what could he be raising with? AK,AQ,TT+. He sees hero as tight so what could he think we’re holding if we shove? Either he thinks it’s a bluff/BB protect and will call (don’t that’s more than 10% likely or so)

or he’ll put us on AK,TT+. Except if he’s holding AA,KK he should be reluctant to call our shove. Holding QQ or lower he’ll be a huge dog or a flip against most of those hands.
Holding AK he’s best case is a flip. AA is unlikely so that leaves KK. I’d say if he has anything than KK he should fold.
If we only raise he can call with most of the hands he’d open with. We can then creaise flop if it’s not to scary. if he checks behind we can overbet the turn making it look like a steal

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Out of position if our play were to just flat pre then we would be looking to check raise the flop however opp could check behind (as he did) and we’d likely be playing one pair on 4th street first to act – not fun. Assuming we want to play for stacks here (fair assumption with the best hand) then we have to re-raise. By shoving we could potentially make opp fold a hand that would call a 3bet and then stack off on a flop of unders (JJ-10s), or 4bet shove (AK). I would re-raise to just under 2k so that opp can shove with AK (thinking he has some FE) but also call with a hand like JJ (or even AQ in pos) as getting 3 to 1. Whatever flop we get we then obv shove and opp is forced to call if unders or if hits an A or K. I think that shoving with an M of 13 can look stronger than a normal re-raise too – depends how strong opp thinks we are.

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i agree with richard P, i dont like the call unless you wanna lpay a small pot with the best possible starting hand. Shoving looks like AK but opp with 10 10 as a solid regular will realise hes probably flipping at best so will let it go after a small raise to begin with. I would raise to 2000 ish as was said by Richard which opp might reraise or call with 10 10 then shove the flop which he would have defo folded..gaining the most chips imo.

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on second thought (after reading Richard P) I must agree that the raise and then shove on flop has a higher EV than raise pre and craise flop. Unless if we’ve got a read saying he’d often bet when original aggressor checks the flop then I’d still go for the check raise on the flop.

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I went against the grain this time and voted call. Totally agree with the r-r comments. My thinking is that AA gives hero a chance to vary a bit from the tight image and build a pot with a well-disguised hand. The hero is likely to see a c-bet on the flop (although this did not actually happen), so depending on the board hero can call or make a value r-r. This action would compensate a 3-bet call p/f and still leave the v guessing. After reading the result and seeing that board, clearly a p/f r-r was the best way to play it.

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i go with richard p on this one. reraise under 2k, and give him the opportunity to make a call that will commit him. he can also then shove over us if he thinks were making a move and might fold. if he calls, shove any flop except paired queens or kings. i understand the shove, but i see its advantage differently then staff. i think normally it looks a bit weak and therefore might get a call….but not really in this case. its just too much of a stretch for a tight player putting most of his chips in with a nice stack against an utg raise. if im him, im putting us on qq+ or AK if we shove, meaning we fold out all but kk.

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Voted shove cos i’m assuming that a really good opponent would be calling shove with AJs+ 22+ since they’d put you on a range, run poker stove, then go #$#@ when you flip AA

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I also think the shove preflop is best,(especially from my time at Pokerstars)any ideas of anyone catching 2 pair on the flop turns my tummy. Chances are the shove will put this to rest and you wont last long with a small raise or call against these 2 pair, and no bad dreams of those bullets getting beat on the river or flop for that night.

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