Daily Hand Quiz

I don’t think we can ever fold top two against this guy. History tells me we can raise here and get called by worse. KJ or a set would suck but there are too many hands we beat and plays this way (AT, QT, A3, AK, AJ, J9 etc.). Calling might be good as well, but after calling we’re so obviously committed, that it might look stronger than raising. Not much difference between the two, most likely all the money goes in anyway.

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Oh, and it’s a bit funny that we have the Qs both in our hand and on the board. If the board is not rainbow it’s a raise even more.

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Agree with Morat. I would re-raise all in feeling very good about it.

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His range is pretty strong. He 3-bet pre, bet the flop, then check/raised the turn. The chance that he’s weak are low. AK and AJ make sense but check/raising the turn is overplaying those, so really AQ/AT/QT, sets, and KJ are the most likely hands.

It doesn’t matter at all what we do now as long as we don’t fold. Calling clearly pot commits us–there would be 780 in the pot on the river with 150 behind, so we’d surely be stacking off with any type of hand. So call, raise, whichever, just don’t misclick and fold.

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I would RAI. With $150 left it does not matter if Hero wants to portray strong image as Villain will be getting 6-1 to call the river anyway.

Suprised that 10% voted fold. HU vs. a LAG opponent, I think top 2 is pretty good. Running good if they have a set or KJ after a suck-out.

Their line is strong, so A10 or Q10 fit. However, we really don’t know – perhaps AJ being over-played?

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What hands could have reraised pre that fits this flop and turn?

I find KJ shooting twice (pre and post flop) rather loose so I wouldn’t worry about that one too much
AK more likely but still not that likely since Heros play might well be AT+ which is hugh fav. against that now
AJ a little loose pre perhaps, fine on flop and LAG on turn (as V’s image)
AT on the loose side pre straight forward on the flop but the change of pace on the turn would worry me.
Trips? A’s would kinda fit but rather unlikely due to heros A
T’s doesn’t fit the c-bet
3′s doesn’t fit the reraise pre
Q’s qould fit the pre action and the c-bet (gotta know if there’s a top pair) and would fit the cr on the turn
If I had to pick one hand it would be QQ but there are quite a few other likely hands so it’s a RAI for me

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samo Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 8:58 am

HU, I think Ax and pps re-raise pre-flop, especially w/lag image.

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Waste_Of_Paint Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 9:09 am

Villain did re-raise pre-flop.

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samo Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 9:51 am

Right … replying that Ax and pp re-raising fits HU play. Thus, hands like A10 and 33 should not be considered loose (imo) because they re-pop p/f.

Pirate21 Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 11:14 am

If AA is unlikely due to hero’s Ace, wouldn’t QQ be equally unlikely?

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runefs Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 10:15 pm

Do’h (I’m used to play with 6 queens or other silly excuse)

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Have to play this for sure. If V has a set or straight, bummer but we’re not playing AQ heads up to fold when we get top 2 on the turn.
Raise or call, either way it’s all getting in the middle. I’d raise now and save the trouble on the river.

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