Daily Hand Quiz

Don’t think you have enough of a stack to raise-fold. Raise-calling is basically the same thing as shoving and getting called, except you probably get more value from hands that re-steal that are weaker than yours.

I like raise-call slightly better than shoving for that reason.

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Fold.

I’m not a fan of KQ in a full ring game.

I think this is a poor spot to steal. Hopefully we shoved last hand, that was a good spot.

Our stack size is too awkward to do anything but shove in this spot.

Raise-fold throws chips away.

Raise-call throws initiative away.

Fold and move on.

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Voted raise-call. With only 3 players behind, KQ is good enough to raise here imo. Hero has Player G covered. I would not shove here, but rather evaluate the flop. By limping you lose a chance to isolate. I’d make it $625 to go. If hero misses the flop, check-fold with 14bbs left.

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black fair Reply:
August 11th, 2009 at 3:39 am

In a full ring with the entire table folding the 3 players behind are increasing likely to have reasonable holdings.

You said you’d raise to $625 and call a re-raise. That would leave you with far less than 14bbs whilst folding 70% of the flops when you don’t hit.

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samo Reply:
August 11th, 2009 at 3:59 am

5 hands (AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ) dominate KQ; we are doing ok against the rest. We have position on 2 of the players and if Player G 3-bets, I’d shove. You are correct – the $625 r assumes no 3-bet.

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black fair Reply:
August 11th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

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August 11th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

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