Daily Hand Quiz

Call and re-evaluate the river. If a fourth diamond doesn’t hit, I call a moderate bet. I don’t call a pot sized bet because the ace could have given him a better two pair.

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black fair Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 am

It’s really hard to put him on AQ as he’d almost certainly open with a raise with that from the cut off.

That leaves him with only A6/A7 to have two pair. This is a hand that is definately vulnerable to continued aggression from us given this board.

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Raise.

We should keep repping the flush here whilst effectively making what is a value raise against most of our opponent’s range.

Its tempting to put our opponent on the Ace of diamonds in this spot, but its a little odd for him to be an aggressive big stack and not opening with a raise when being dealt an ace in the cut off.

It’s hard to put our opponent on the flush too, a player trying to be tricky might check-call and donk, but its pretty non-standard. Someone holding a baby flush should be raising to protect their hand whilst someone with a big flush or nut flush would usually let the aggressive player in position bet the turn then check-raise them.

So I’m not giving our opponent credit for a hand that has us beat here.

Raising here lets us keep the initiative and I think makes the river an easier decision. If we slow down and just call here we will get led into again guaranteed.

For me this hand plays out ideally if we raise here, get called, and can check-through any river that isn’t a six or a seven (where we’d obviously bet for value). I’m thinking our opponent can be raising here with just the case ace, but also with A6/A7 and air. Those sort of hands are likely to call our turn raise and then check most rivers. They are also a range which isn’t very profitable to river value bet given the ones we beat fold and the ones we don’t call.

The only reason to call here is that if we raise here and get re-raised straight back it’s pretty hard to continue without having some sick read that puts our opponent on air and willing to bluff hard against the other big stack whilst out of position with air.

But like I said, I really can’t range our opponent as being ahead of us here most of the time, so let’s raise for value.

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Pete Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 am

“We should keep repping the flush here whilst effectively making what is a value raise against most of our opponent’s range.”

Why would we want to represent a hand stronger than the one we hold if we’re raising for value?

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black fair Reply:
September 5th, 2009 at 6:05 am

If he puts us on a flush we may get better hands than two pair two fold. If he doesn’t put us on a flush we may get weaker hands than two pair to call.

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For me it’s pretty even between raise and call. I do think that Ad figures prominently in villain’s range and the trouble with this is that in order to get him off his hand and successfully represent the flush we would need to raise pretty big. While I do like my hand right now, it is not quite strong enough that I would feel happy to commit half my chips with. We have position, why not play small ball here and keep the pot under control.

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what is overlimping? I can’t even find a defintion after 5 mins of googling, Cheers

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Limping behind someone who openlimped?

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Voted call. I believe a flopped small flush would have c-r the flop. Aces-up unlikely, unless v limped with AQ. Set is unlikely since hero has 76. I’m making a case for raising, but with a loose opponent I’ll opt to risk letting them see a ‘cheap’ riv. Raise may not get a turn call, but a blank on the riv may get a bluff from the v.

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