Daily Hand Quiz

Re-raise. Most people probably only 4-bet out of position with KK/AA and that is too narrow a range for 4-betting, making it too easy for our opponent to make the correct laydown. QQ is also a good 4-betting hand.

Later in the tournament I would say it also helps balance our 4-betting range because we can then 4-bet light on occasion against a regular who can 3-bet light a fair amount. Early on though I suspect he’s doing this for value more than “just” to play back, but because of our loose image he’s likely to show up with 99-JJ and AJs/AQo a large amount of the time, so re-raising is for value.

The next question is do we call or fold to a 5-bet shove?

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I’d make a mini-raise for a couple of reasons – oop and value. Might flat call in position, attempting to extract additional value. Overcards likely to appear only ~1/3 of the time, however V has something here imo. Hero will have to navigate the flop carefully. I’d fold to a p/f shove.

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Dan L Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 am

I like the raise, but the first reason for mini-raise you put here is 180 off. OOP you want to make your raises larger in general because your opponent has position and can often play his hands well after the flop. Therefore, you want more of the pot built before the flop when you have the much better hand.

I know you want to entice your opponent to play along and he could have alot of weak hands, but think of how he would play those. Say our opponent has A-7s or 10-9s and your small 4 bet entices a call. They actually have a hand that plays easy flop and on. Just raise to 2500-3000 and get it in here.

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samo Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm

You are right on if they are holding those hands. Make it 2800 … 3.5x the 3-bet.

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would definitely 4 bet him, gives us a better read on him, only hands he is really capable of playing on a 4 bet are AA, KK, QQ.

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