Daily Hand Quiz

Poll says I voted call. In fact that is what I would do here. I don’t have the chips to get creative an try to take it down now without risking too much of my stack. I reraised I will prob let it go.

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Groundhog day Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 5:24 am

If reraised. Not I reraised.

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this looks like a perfect spot for a repop to me. theres only the button and blinds behind, and a raise here will fold out all but the highest end of hands they might have. if the hijack has a big pair, sucks for us, but generally this is a hand and sitch where isolating to one opp who we have position on justifies the risk involved in reraising. im making it about 9500.

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Waste_of_Paint Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 11:40 am

This.

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Waste_of_Paint Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 11:41 am

By which I mean, I agree with this… not correcting your capitalisation error

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Standard 3-bet. We don’t really want to play this postflop getting bet into by the original raiser as we’re almost always going to be facing one or two overcards. We’re going to be forced to fold too often, unless we decide to turn our hand into a bluff, in which case we’d have been better off putting more money in preflop rather than postflop.

I’d raise to 9K and reevaluate if shoved on. Calling or folding would be opponent dependent with my default play leaning towards calling.

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I’d probably reraise to isolate and keep my position in the hand. If villain reraises me preflop than I’d think about letting it go. Really hard with no read on villain. If we raise and fold we’d still have about 40K to do something with. I’m sure some people might just be willing to get it all in preflop with pocket 8′s. I’m a little tighter than that. Perhaps if the flop was all unders (unlikely) I might be able to justify getting it in, hoping that villain had big unpaired over cards.

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We shouldn’t be too scared to shove in this spot. Once ITM the dynamic of the game changes a lot, the blinds and antes are huge compared to the stacks, so people are looking to get their money in.
We have a decent stack now but people will be doubling up frequently from now on.

Anyone is free to disagree but I think a reasonable range for an open-raise from the HJ is
55+, A7o+, KJo, KQo, any suited A, any suited broadway.
Against this range we are actually a 53,4% favorite, and have a good deal of fold equity.

Of course there is also a chance the button or the blinds wake up with a better pair – even then we can often get 99-JJ to fold here.

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Pirate21 Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 8:18 am

For the most part, I’m with you here and I would add some suited connector-type hands to V’s range.
One other thought though… we have position post flop which makes an argument for making a standard 3-bet and seeing a flop which gives us more options. Not crazy about giving E an opportunity to come back over the top – but if we 3-bet to around 11K, we should still fold out all but the top of his range. So, the question is what to do if he plays back at us… if he shoves, I think I’d have a difficult time calling.

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I’d 3-bet for a few reasons:
1. Strength of hand.
2. Isolate.
3. Prevent button squeeze, in particular given our image.

I’d bet 20% of stack, 9.8k. I’d evaluate calling a 4-bet based on table images.

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