Daily Hand Quiz

Voted half pot to pot. Checking that blank turn after leading on that flop will look quite suspicious, so opponent will likely check. Hero risks letting a free card hit, as well as losing the chance to build the pot. An under bet allows opponent to draw at a reasonable price. An overbet after a blank may indicate to the opponent that hero is slow-playing a big hand, thus potentially losing him/her.

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Agree with Samo. Need a healthy bet here, maybe around 900 or 1000. I’m happy to take it down here as well if villain folds. Hope they call and the river blanks too though. If they shove right here on the turn over my bet I’m calling for sure. I just don’t think they are showing up with a Queen/10 in the pocket very often after calling my preflop raise. In my opinion they are drawing to a flush or they have a Queen OR a ten in their hand, but not both. Maybe they even show up with a weakish suited Ace here sometimes, but not too much.

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Agree with all of the above. Lots of hands in villain’s range would have hit the flop, but we’re clearly ahead of nearly all. Two pair or some sort of big pair/draw combo seem pretty likely here.
No reason to get tricky here. Continue the line and force him to make a tough call for about a quarter of his stack.

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Bet pot. If he called the flop then he has something and we can likely get a full pot bet of value out of him. We don’t have a specific reason to believe that he has a weak ace so there’s no reason to slow down in hopes of extracting marginal value besides that the Ahxh combo is possible and drawing thinner than he thinks so charge him.

I also would have bet more on the flop, like 600. It’s a scary flop and anything that will call a bet in general will likely be willing to call around pot. We’re aggro, our opponents aggro, so why not bet big. That’s not unreasonable if that’s our image.

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I hardly ever slow play, but this is a prime position for a check-Raise turn. A fair percentage of the time a call on the flop from an aggressive villain in position is a float. Check and show some weakness here and you may get the extra bet out of him. You may even commit him to the pot if either semi-bluffs or he has an A, J or the case K and value bets.

If he does check and the heart, Q or 10 hits, then (assuming you haven’t boated ah3h) check-call the river. If the river blanks or you boat, then overbet the river.

What hands do you think the villain does not bet to a check here:

Simple Draw (h,q or t) – Good chance of semi-bluffing to your check, less change he would call another bet or semi-bluff raise to your strong bet.
ReDraw (e.g. Qhxh) – Good chance of getting a semibluff out of him. May Bluff on river if misses.
2pair, JJ – you will get his money.
AA, QT – he will get your money.
Ax, Kx! – good chance of v putting you on Q,T,h or underpair and value betting.
Jx – will check fold to any bet unless a total muppet, chance of him improving to 2p on r.
xx and given he floated in position – Will bluff for sure.

So the only question is how many extra chips will you lose if you let the v see a free card and he hits. Well the thing is we have already charged the v plenty for his draw already. If we both keep playing like this, then I’ll make chips in the long run.

So with that in mind, I’m certainly calling any river bet, except possibly the Qh or Th.

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Over bet, he has an A and will call for max value. Half the pot is just costing you money. He would not have called pre-flop and post flop without the A. If he did he is a PoS player

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Im betting about 1200…looking like possibly a mediocre hand trying to get him out of the pot. He should call if he called the flop, committing himself to the pot.

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