Daily Hand Quiz

Without any read on the villain I’d probably call and analyse the turn here rather than build a huge pot with TPTK. It’s quite likely we’re ahead but the min raise could mean a lot of things. I’m happy to keep control of the pot and call.

I’d lead most turn cards for about 2/3 pot to test the villain. He could easily be raising the flop against our image and I doubt he’s raising the turn unless he’s got us beaten, given our strong line. If he raises again I’m folding, if he calls I am value betting the river unless the board has become super ugly.

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Well I’m definitely not folding for another 20. So I think I’d call and evaluate the turn. We might be able to rep a spade flush if that hits, or if the board blanks with another low card we might still be good. I think if villain had a pocket pair of 10′s or better he would raise a little bit more than that to protect against the flush and find out where he’s at. If he thought he was way ahead with a big pair he’d want to raise more for value as well in my opinion. So I think he has overs that missed. He could have flopped a set but I really doubt it. It just doesn’t feel like that. I think he had good starting cards and wanted to catch some and let our aggression pay him off. We almost have to bet the turn no matter what comes out. I think if we check the turn it will just open the door for him to make a move at the pot. If we bet at about 3/4 of the pot on the turn he’ll know it will cost him a lot to bluff us off. So if he comes over the top we gotta know we’re beat somehow.

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I’d call here, primarily looking at the raise as a play-back to Hero agg image. I think TT+ is 3-betting PF, so my range for the V is a low pp, broadway cards, Ax, and FD.

Getting 4.5-1 with tp/tk, over-card, and BDFD makes it difficult for me to find a fold. If the V did flat with an over-pair, I think they would pop more than a min-raise. Same if they flopped a set. I view the min-raise as pressure to fold a missed flop.

Tempting to r-r, but then the pot gets out of control and we are oop. Opt to call and evaluate the turn. If a non-spade over hits the turn, I’m folding to a strong bet.

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I’d call here for pot controll, and also because I don’t think anything we beat could call a 3bet, except for a combo-draw. I agree with most of the previous posters, that V’s range include almost exclusively thin air and flush draws, anything else should’ve raised bigger. (Never forget sheer stupidity combined with a stronger hand though)
Flop 3bet is also an option when our opponent is aggro enough: he won’t call, but he can come over the top with holdings we beat, like draws or maybe even overpairs. W/o a read, this is still a call though.
Turn action is read (stats) dependent. I would never try to rep a flush – it’s unnecessary if he has air and it’s burning money if he has a set or the flush itself. I’m not worried about letting him a second chance to try to take the pot – actually I’d like him to do that, that’s why I didn’t 3bet the flop. So I check to an aggro opponent and I bet/fold to a passive one (not letting to draw for free).
If the flush hits it’s gonna be a crying c/c for me, with a possible c/f on the river (assuming he wouldn’t bluff two streets with air on a 3 flush board when our play is so much in line with a passively played flush). I know it sounds pretty exploitable, risky and passive, but I do not really know better ways in this case.

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This smells real problem. If he was making a move at the pot, we’d have raised bigger because he knows that we are not folding for 20 more. So this smells like a bigger pocket pair (JJ-QQ) or a set or a combo draw. So we are never ahead and we’ll never know where we are in the hand. Any overcard, any spade, any 5 or T (he can have 7-8) are trouble. I call only for not giving the idea I can be pushed around with a min raise but I’m folding almost always on the turn.

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