Daily Hand Quiz

Fold.
I see how this would seem a great spot for us, but looking at it through villain’s eyes, he should know that there is a good chance his shove gets called, given your stack and image.
Close to the bubble with decent M he is not shoving into your stack just to defend a BB, he figures to have a better hand than yours.

You are in no hurry to eliminate players here so save the coin flips for when you’re ITM.

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Fold, QTo is crap. We can’t dominate BB, but we are easily dominated. Got to accept that this steal didn’t work, and take advantage of our aggressive image later where we have a better hand.

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I would put V on just about any ace and any pair to do this, maybe even some other broadway cards, which really isnt great for your equity. Against 22+,A2o+,KTo+,QTo+ you are not even 40% to win preflop. Unfortunately, the odds are looking about that 1.5:1 for your call. I still say tighten up and try to let your image help you in the long run when you start to play less medeocre hands.

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Fold. Do not want to hand out a courtesy double up to the tight player to your left. Even if bb is re stealing our hand is marginal at best. No thanks.

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Yup – our hand sucks in this instance given the descriptions of the players involved and all. If anyone votes for call then they also get my vote for donk of the year.

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Normally I type too much, but this one is a sinch. Q high is definitely good enough to pressure the blinds. That’s all we were trying to do here was apply some pressure and get a fold. In no way did we play this looking to see a flop or induce a shove. It is for sure good enough to pressure blinds, but not good enough for play-back.

Dime a dozen scenario, sometimes it doesn’t work! Fold and move on without a second thought.

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If we don’t call this one, he’ll reship every other raise of ours. We have the chips to make this slight underdgog call.

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Pirate21 Reply:
August 5th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

Great! So when we have a real hand we can call. In the meantime, we should go ahead and fold our mediocre hand.
The fact that we have the chips is not a good reason to call when we’re way behind our opponent’s range. If we do that, we won’t have the chips anymore when we really need them.

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