Daily Hand Quiz

Another tough one.

This isn’t the scariest four card to a straight board imagineable, 2′s and 7′s aren’t exactly the most likely cards for our opponent to be holding.

However its heads up vs an unknown opponent – people tend to turn up with all sorts of hands.

I’m pretty tempted to raise here and get a feel for my opponent. He may fold in which case pats on the back for picking off the bluff. He may flat call our raise and then check the river giving us a chance to check through and see what he’s got. Or he may raise us right back and we can fold fairly confidently.

I don’t like calling here because its very likely he fires again on the river if we slow down now and there just isn’t any river card that makes me happy about calling another pot sized bet.

We can fold here an acknowledge that a lot of the time we’re drawing dead and that if our opponent is bluffing he’s found the perfect board to do it against our hand and kudos to him.

So i’m fairly undecided. I think the raise might be the better option for meta-game reasons. It tells us more about our opponent’s style and lets them know that they need to have a hand when they lead into us after our pre-flop raise and c-bet.

In conclusion: Raise to $36. Fold if re-raised. Fold if lead into on river. Look for the check-through.

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John Kugelman Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 1:50 pm

“He may fold in which case pats on the back for picking off the bluff.”

Making somebody fold a bluff is not a good reason to raise.

“Or he may raise us right back and we can fold fairly confidently.”

On a drawy board the villain could easily re-raise us with a weaker made hand, say 86 or A4h, or even a pure draw like J8h.

If you’re willing to put in another bet on the turn by raising, which may cause weaker hands to fold and will put us in a difficult spot if re-raised, it would be smarter to just call and re-evaluate on the river. You can always just call a river bet which would cost the same as raising on the turn but would allow the villain to fire as a bluff a second time, or value bet a top pair type hand that would fold to a raise on this scary board.

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Voted fold. Hero tried to end the hand by over-betting the pot on the flop. V called and then leads for 2/3 on the turn. Could have nothing and is putting us on broadway cards hoping to take it down here; could have top pair (a 6) and feel that is still good, or have the nuts. Calling here means calling the riv as well – too expensive. Raising would be committing large part of stack with the possibility of drawing dead – tough without a read or history on the v.

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i like samo s answer I ticked calling for some reason but fold is probably correct move

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Well our opponent probably called the 3bet with pocket pairs or high connectors such as KQ. I’m going to rule out the possibility of a straight because the opponent usually would not call a 3bet with K-7 or something. Even if they did, they wouldn’t call the flop bet with such bad pot odds. It’s too much money to chase an inside straight draw.

There’s a high likelihood that the opponent has a set and is faking a bluff on the turn with a flamboyant bet. On the other hand, people would usually downplay their set all the way to the river.

I think a raise is good to see if the opponent is bluffing, which is probably the case.

I don’t think calling is a great idea, since our opponent will just fire again. Also, I really don’t want someone getting a free card only to hit a KING/ACE overcard.

Folding should be done at the river if our opponent catches something really lucky. (2-pair or an ace/king overcard)

If our opponent flat calls, then he would most likely check the river and wait for an aggressive raise. From there, it’s best to check.

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