Daily Hand Quiz

We need to bet again. We’re ahead of most of V’s range, but there are plenty of cards to come that could make him a winner, so we need to charge for those draws.
Also, if we check we give him a great opportunity to bluff. I’ll bet about 2/3 of the pot and be happy if I can take it down here.

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Not that scared of a flush. Check-calling the pot instead of c-betting this flop leads me to believe he has good hole cards. The flop did not help him ahead, but he’s not believing it helped us either. If we bet the turn he’ll have to start worrying about that and may well fold. If we check back he’ll surely bet the river which we can then call or raise to our heart’s content.

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I’d check for pot control. Hero image is lag, so the possibility of a CR exists. Checking also gives the V a chance to bluff the river, which I’d call any non-heart.

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I’m gonna check. That was a pretty big action killer for us. And I don’t see us getting too much love from any decent hand that we are beating. Plus the flush just got there, we have no re-draw, and this guy could have a lot of different things. If he turned a flush, then we made a smart move, and if they find a 4 flush for his lone heart then so be it. 2 heart overs are well in the flop call range. And if the board pairs, we lose the minimum.

I just really don’t want to bet here, and then get re-raised. I’d rather check, and call a value bet from him on the river. In fact, if the river pairs the board, and he bets, I’m folding, because the only thing we can beat is a stone bluff.

It is nice having a straight, but when the bigger straight, flush, and possible full house all get there, you may as well have a pair of 3s.

Check and check behind.

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Major Dude Reply:
January 12th, 2011 at 3:53 pm

Agreed. I’m thinking more about the meta-game these days, and if we’ve been LAG-y so far, other folks are looking for a chance to trap us or play back against us.

Villain’s line could mean a lot of things, but an attempted trap with the goods is certainly possible. If we bet the turn and fold to a c/r, we not only lose $$ unnecessarily, we make our tough-guy image look like a facade.

As the General points out, right now we have the sixth best hand on this board — and no redraws. We don’t really know what Villain has. We keep some credibility if we can get to showdown without risking much more $$. We might even win the hand. By contrast, if we bet now, we don’t force a better hand to fold. We probably don’t coax a weaker hand into paying us off. We just run the risk that a gnarly hand becomes very expensive.

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Pirate21 Reply:
January 12th, 2011 at 5:46 pm

I understand the points, but not sure I agree. What hands are we putting V on that we’re so scared of?
Sure, he could have two hearts – in that case we’re drawing dead.
Seems a bit unlikely he has a bigger straight. I guess it’s possible he raised UTG preflop with 8-10, but it wouldn’t be my first guess.
Otherwise he’s either got over cards, an over pair, a set or a flush draw (or some combination of these). These seem like the most likely holdings to me and all are drawing to beat us. I’m not letting him do that for free.
If he already made his flush, so be it. But there’s too many danger cards left in the deck for me to not bet here.

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Either b/f turn or c turn and b/c brick rivers.

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i like checking for pot control and calling a bet on brick rivers, or betting when checked to on a brick river, check behind on a heart. Its no fun if i get check/raised on the turn, but obv its ok if villain flats, but then you hate any heart on the river, and its no fun if villain bets or check/raises the river. Check/calling turn and check/raising the river would be a really good line for villain whatever he has

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