Daily Hand Quiz

Flatting the raise p/f is debatable, and Hero still does not know where he/she stands. I voted raise to find-out.

Unlikely V flopped a flush, besides Hero has a big club. With slightly better than a 1/2 pot bet, I’d rule-out a set and 2-pr. I also think a small flush is firing heavier.

Frankly the agg V could have ATC in this spot. Considering stack sizes, this may be the hand to try and double. I’d RAI.

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<2 PSB behind is a great time to jam into an aggressive player, when we PROBABLY have the best hand. Lets hope V doesnt show up with AcXo because its just better than a flip at that point but were getting 1.5:1 on our jam. I like the check/raise line here, as V really doesnt know where he is at, and the cbet looks pretty standard, nothing that says “im lookin to take your chips” nor “im holding air.” Im with samo. RAI.

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Hate the call oop preflop. With the short stack I now raise all in.

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Agree with previous comments – this is definitely a raise spot and H should have raised p/f.
This feels like an open-raise, followed by a standard c-bet from aggressive player. May or may not have hit the flop, but it doesn’t really matter much because we’re WAY ahead of his range. We have a nice, healthy pot so it’s time shove and avoid being out drawn.

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I’m going to call here.

Villain is aggressive, it’s 5-handed, so he should be raising pre and c-betting with a large range of hands, most of which we are beating. We did not raise pre, which while questionable has concealed our hand considerably. This flop turned out absolutely brilliant for us.

If we shove now we are turning a great hand into a bluff. When we break out of our slowplay here, v is folding a lot of hands that we can extract a (semi-)bluff from on the turn.

A call here for a bit over 1/5 of our stack represents weak, distracted play and makes the pot the size of our stack.
If we then check the turn, v will have to raise us all-in if he wants to win the hand, and since we already decided we were going to try and double up on the flop, we’ll happily call.
We may of course be behind or drawing dead by then. V has Ac-X and turn brings a club, V has 66 and turn brings a non-club 3 or 8, V has AA or KK.
But these hands would likely have called our shove on the flop anyway.
V also may read our intentions, check back the turn and fold to our river shove. In that case he would have folded to our flop shove as well.

I don’t think shoving this flop is wrong, but I think calling accomplishes everything shoving does, and then some.

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Major Dude Reply:
August 28th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

“If we then check the turn, v will have to raise us all-in if he wants to win the hand, and since we already decided we were going to try and double up on the flop, we’ll happily call.”

Nope . . . this is exactly what’s wrong with playing passively when we’re ahead. This line cedes control to Villain about when to make the pot big. If he’s trying to pair a non-club K or A, we’re giving him a cheap look at the turn. No reason to do that.

I’d rather push now and know that he’s paying a steep price to try to outdraw us.

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Easy Jam post flop to an over agg player. First we have a ton of outs including a flush draw, top pair, plus 2 for a set, and its highly unlikely he holds the K or A of clubs. I like the odds so JAMMIN is correct choice.

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With as fucking beautiful as I’ve been running lately I may as well just fold right here right now. Cuz with my luck right now he is going to flip over 3d3h and river his 3s one outter.

I’m serious, when I walk outside, I look up cautiously just waiting for that grand piano to fall on my god damn head.

I gotta forget this last week quickly.

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Waste_of_Paint Reply:
August 30th, 2010 at 11:04 am

If he has 3s he has 4 outs

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