Daily Hand Quiz

I don’t mind either play here with some frequency, but I prefer betting more often than checking. Your image makes a check a bit suspicious, especially on this board. Plus, when you call or raise him, he’s probably going to go away.

You want him to float you here and attempt to steal on the turn. I think a half pot bet will do the trick.

What actually happened: You bet 2875 and your opponent folded.

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Agree with Staff on the check being suspisious. A bet about the same size of cbets I had had to fold would be my action. Hoping for opp to interpret as weakness/atealing and come over to steal the pot.

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In this hand the opponent has not been very aggressive. He limped and then called a reraise, so if we bet out he may feel that he can’t steal this pot. Besides, because of his preflop play, I put him on a medium pair (like 8-8 or 9-9) or two high connected cards (like KQ), so he may feel he can take down this pot on the flop. Plus, our stack compared to the pot is perfect for a check-raise. I check.

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@Kaimano

You should try to give villain a (complete) range of hands instead of “puting them on” hands. If he is very aggro it is unlikely (but possible of course)that he is open/limping any of the range that you listed even in early position.

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Agree with the staff … I’d lead for 3100 and hope the v has a Q. I don’t believe a check(raise) will entice a bet.

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We don’t have much behind, so we could check/raise now or bet out now and try to get it all in by the turn. I agree with the staff that we should bet out more frequently in this spot than we check so we can balance our c-betting range. Let’s try the good ol’ stack-a-donk line. Lead for 40-50% of pot on the flop, then check/raise the turn.

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I voted check. Theres enough in there that if we check, a “very aggro” villain could easily take a stab. We’re fairly low stacked, might have missed and not wanted to commit another large chunk of our stack to this pot out of position….

If he has a Q, he could also call our CR all in, figuring we’re just playing against his image.

If he checks behind, then a turn bet could be read as US reading weakness and taking a stab, and might induce a raise if he has (or even doesnt have) a piece.

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Next time, just type in the chat that you have Aces, because this pree flop raise amount is basically doing the same thing

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Knowing that our opponent’s range when limping in at cutoff is pretty wide we are also justified to put in a PF raise with a pretty wide range of hands. And with this range this is a pretty good flop. The point is that we could have connected but any opponent worth his salt will know that we c-bet pretty wide here. At this point I am perfectly willing to go with the hand and get my chips in, so that’s going to be my aim. CR is unlikely to get us all-in unless we’re beat. Leading the flop and checkraising the turn has a bette chance to achieve that, if our opponent connected. If he didn’t, we’re not going to get much out of this hand anyway.

However, I would certainly also go for a CR at this spot every now and then.

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I play highly aggro, so putting myself in the villains shoes

I’ll virtually never open limp. The only time i’ll ever do this if i’m playing a hand that i really should be from MP, such as 67o, or A2s

Will typically auto bluff if I bet preflop, it’s checked to me and i’m last to go

If i limp then by the time the flop comes i’ll be @#$@#$ why did i limp then call with this turd hand, and be looking for any excuse to get out of the hand

That being said if villain is mental aggro they may bluff if checked to even though they limped , so in this scenario id say check is best

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