Daily Hand Quiz

Raise.

I don’t really like this spot.

I think folding here would be fine, playing a big pot out of position against this player isn’t what we want. If we’ve sat down with fish then picking a fight with this player, whom I take to be one of the better players at the table, doesn’t seem to be the most profitable approach.

If we call here in my opinion it has to be to check-raise shove any turn card. To me thats the only believable alternative line to re-raising.

Personally I don’t really want to shove a bricked turn so I’m going to re-raise here.

My logic here is that we’ve raised UTG, we’ve bet the K, there is no reason to slow down. There are not a whole lot of kings in our opponents range, I’m more inclined to think this raise is from an opponent taking our measure and responding to our image.

We should keep repping the big made hand and try and fold our opponent out. We’re completely committed once we re-raise and will have to get it all in one way or another but we’ve got a reasonable draw to fall back on if called, I would’ve preferred a little more equity in the pot though even if it was just a backdoor flush…

For me its either raise or fold, calling here just hurts our odds of winning the hand too much.

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Voted call. Getting better than 3-1 pot odds and think we can induce another bet on the turn, even if a 4 or 9 hit. If the flop hit the v, they are playing it very strongly despite a fairly safe board. Somewhat suspicious that they would play AK, KQ, or a set that way, more likely they are playing against hero’s image. Calling allows hero to vary play, gives them outs, and a nice potential pay-off in the case v is holding a big K. If hero misses turn, check-fold.

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yeah you either call or fold in this spot due to the other players image which i have to either put him on ak or kq raising is not an option unless you like putting you hard earn money in the pot with nothin

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by the way i voted call

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call is acceptable and hope to connect on the turn. you are in position to fire out (bluff) on the turn so really your favorite cards to see are 456789 or ace because:

with a 5 or 6 you can represent trips
with a 4 or 9 you have the straight and can either check to enduce opponent to bet or value bet it to the river.
with an Ace you can scare a king out with a big bet.

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Im probably calling too, only because I think if we hit our straight its disguised and a check on the river will result in villain betting, which we raise of course.

Who knows, maybe he has a strong king, will think we’re making a play and pay off the raise too.

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