Daily Hand Quiz

Two pair seems pretty unlikely here, so you’re looking at a flush draw, top pair, set, or air. I’m not getting away from this hand here on the turn, so the question is how to best balance risk on the river.

I feel like you’ll lose top pair with a raise here, and you’ll certainly lose air. You will probably lose most flush draws, altho combo draws with over 12 outs will likely stick around getting close to 3-1.

I think it’s close, but I like a raise here simply because a solid regular is unlikely to make a big mistake on the river, so you might as well focus on protecting your equity when you’re ahead.

What actually happened: You raised and your opponent folded

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If he has a set, the money is going into the pot anyway because I’m not folding an overpair on this board. If he has a strong king (AK) he’ll have a tough decision but I don’t think he can let it go. If he has a flush draw I want him to pay the maximum to draw. If he has air…well, I want to advertise him. So I push all-in.

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I voted fold but absolutely feel ashamed about it now. (Probably got coolered too many times nowadays, this quiz helped me to find a huge leak). It’s a raise for sure: draws are bigger part of his range than sets, and calling can put as in a crappy spot on the river as more than half the deck are scare cards and we are already commited.

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I’d rather protect my equity on the flop by putting in the third raise and seeing if opp actually does have a set (by anything other than a fold).

Now having called the flop bet we are stack committed in this hand as we can’t fold the turn get getting 2.5 to 1 with an overpair and we can’t fold a river shove with the same price.

If we raise it obviously has to put opp all in who’d be getting the same odds as above so unless we think a solid, winning regular would stack off with just a king or getting the wrong odds for a flush draw then the only hand that calls our raise is one that has us crushed (set) and I’d rather not commit 160bbs with just one pair!

So by just calling the flop reraise I don’t think we have a choice now, gotta call this one down. Big mistake on flop IMO.

plus we may still be good / spike an ace if we’re not. Having called the flop and turn i’ve set myself up to call an all in on the river.

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I think you’ve got to raise given the way it’s been played up to now. I think you can definitely dismiss a low straight and probably even two pair and a set, I just don’t think he’d play it that way with such a strong overbet; I don’t think he’d want to scare you off given the fact you could still pay him off. If he had a set, especially with Kings, I believe he would try to play it to the river even with the straight and flush possibilities and therefore he would check call or check raise. The villain sees you don’t bet much post flop and is trying to bully you, I think he could have a King with a high kicker and is trying to knock you off a perceived draw. He could also be on a draw himself but I just don’t think we’re beaten yet. Raise him all-in, if we’re beaten then so be it.

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I voted raise, but I like what Richard said about 3 betting the flop.

What would be the right reraise in this situation? The pot is $254 if you just call the check raise. Would you reraise an additional $254 (pot), around $168 (2/3 pot), or something else?

I’m thinking the flop 3 bet should be about $168 plus the $98 call for a total of around $266.

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I would 3 bet the flop if we were out of position. With position, I play as above and let him lead out on the turn(as in the example) with the intention of getting all in on the turn barring maybe a heart or K. So I vote raise.
If opponent were as deep as we are I would probably play call/call from here or call/value bet if he checks the river.

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For the 3rd bet on the flop I don’t think we need to raise more than 2.5x so another 150 on top of his 98 bet – expensive enough to shut out flush / combo draws such as Ah5h as opp only getting 2.7 to 1. If opp calls / puts in the 4th raise then I completely shut the hand down.

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Tough spot, but I voted raise. The v is not likely to put you on a draw with your p/f raise over 2 limpers. V may have, or is rep, a K which you can beat. With that board, I would expect lighter betting if the v flopped a set. Raise to $340 and call a modest riv bet, but would prefer to check-down depending on the card.

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Just noticed the v stack … raise him all-in.

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If you really want it to go all in, just call

If he’s bluffing, he may fire a third barrel (though he’d need to be on tilt to be this stupid)

If he checks river, then just shove since he’ll have only have to call 360 into a pot of 960, no ones gonna say no to those pot odds

Since you merely called the flop check raise – you’re essentially play a trapping line, which dictates that you must be prepared to go all in.

Safer and more standard line is 3 bet flop and fold to 4 bet since it’s gonna be a set

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Pretty easy raise. His check raise smells of trying to protect AK/KQ against an aggressive player. Pop it again on the turn and make the super difficult fold if he shoves.

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