Daily Hand Quiz

It’s funny the contrast between the optimistic staff analysis and the hard truth of pocket aces being shown. In my opinion even the preflop re-raise was a mistake. Against an UTG raiser I don’t want to play a big pot out of position with queens.

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Easy fold,tough but easy.You got still plenty of time…and chips.

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I’d rather lose 480 preflop than my stack postflop when it comes all unders. I also think you have to value 3bet queens in this spot 95% time. I fold to the shove and move onto the next hand.

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Agony. I voted fold…but I have a feeling that was just to please the poker gods. I don’t know if I have the discipline to do so in the game. Still, UTG’s shove into TWO players is a monster or suicidal. Too early to give them credit for suicidal, so, I went with monster and folded.

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I voted fold for 2 reasons.

First, Im putting him on KK or AA….its just too hard to imagine a solid winning player making this huge move this early against what looks like a very strong reraise from us with JJ or less.

Second, we have 480 chips in there. Theres a lot of poker left to be played. It hurts, but let this one go. Feel out the table and play your best poker….there will be plenty of spots where you can pick up 480 and a lot more down the road.

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Gotta fold. What range of hands does he put a tight player on in this spot to want to shove over(obv for value in this spot)? If he were to be going broke with jj or even ak that early to a nit reraising a utg open from the sb he wouldn’t be a winning reg! maybe if he flats i could understand going broke on a good flop. Tough spot though, but I don’t think there’s two ways about it.

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call and re evaluate after the flop

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@Bert – Um, not much to re-evaluate when you call the all-in… I voted fold, but have proven that, like Tripps, I can’t do it live. I had KK in a tourney last week with an UTG limp, and I made it 5X (2500 w/500BB) with 10,500 behind. Folded to UTG, who shoved. I looked at him, smiled, shook my head, and said, “You’ve got aces…..” I almost mucked face up but said, “And there’s nothing I can do about it.” and called off my tournament life when he showed me his aces. I knew it, never a doubt, and STILL donkey-called him when faced with the real decision.

It’s one thing to vote the fold in the quiz, but quite another to make the big laydown for real.

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Интересно, но все же хотелось бы побольше узнать об этом. Понравилась статья!:-)

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If this was a low buy-in event where there are alot of donkeys who push with anything then I would call

But since this is a $650 WSOP qualifer you would have to assume he either has KK or AA

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Our range versus his AKo, JJ+ range, 0.463
The pot is offering .441 needed or better.
Thus we (barely) have the pot odds to justify this call ASSUMING HE MAKES THIS PLAY EVERYTIME WITH JACKS

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Our range versus his AKo, JJ+ range, 0.463
The pot is offering .441 needed or better.
Thus we (barely) have the pot odds to justify this call ASSUMING HE MAKES THIS PLAY EVERYTIME WITH JACKS. I find that a rather large assumption. Going allin for the 3rd raise with JJ isn’t bad play, but it’s not standard. I’ll give him 40% as a likelihood, which I feel is not unreasonable for an unknown regular winner.

Our range is suddenly .381 with pot requiring .441, not even close. So unless villain makes this move 90% with jacks, pot odds say we should fold.

Combined with early stage and opponent’s image, lousy pot odds, impaired chance of T survival, this is a necessary fold.

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