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Daily Hand Quiz Archives: Tourney / NL
Small pair in the SB facing reraise, no limit tournament
Game type: $1000 NL tournament, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: ITM, 50/723 remain
Avg stack: 150k
Your hand: 5♦5♣
The setup: You’re in the money of the PokerStars 1k Sunday. You’ve been card dead and inactive for the last few rounds and you’re sitting on a short full article
Archive pick: Overpair versus a minimum raise, final table bubble of the Sunday Million
Game type: No limit tournament, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: Final table bubble, 11 of ~7k remain
Avg stack: 6.5m
Your image: Fairly aggressive
Opponent’s image: Ultra-tight
Your hand: K♣K♥
This quiz is from our archives and originally ran on 2/18/08. View the original quiz, poll and full article
AJ vs a re-raise, WSOP satellite
Game type: WSOP ME Satellite, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: 326/8076 remain
Avg stack: 102k
Your image: Fairly quiet
Opponent’s image: Same
Your hand: A♦J♥
The setup: You’re deep in the WSOP satellite on PokerStars. The top 226 players get seats to the main event. There’s 326 left when full article
Archive: Small blind play on the flop against a preflop raiser, no limit tournament
Game Type: Online Tournament, No Limit
Stage: 340 of 600 players remaining
Average stack: 6200
Your Hand: 9♥7♥
This quiz is taken from our archives. It’s actually the very first quiz we posted, back on August 8th, 2006. View the original here.
The Setup: full article
Archive pick: Garbage hand on the final table bubble - PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: NLHE tournament, PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 11 remain
Avg stack: ~6 million
Your image: Nursing the short stack
Opponent’s image: Relatively quiet
Your hand: 9♠2♥
This quiz is from our archives and originally ran on 12-17-07. Click here to view the original quiz, poll results full article
Middle pair facing a small flop lead, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: ITM, 110 / 7112 remain
Avg stack: 600k
Your image: A little aggressive
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: J♠T♠
This hand comes from actual gameplay in yesterday’s Sunday Million between iapetus and 11razorback; you’ll be standing in for iapetus
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Overpair on safe flop, no limit 6 max tournament
Game type: NL 6 max tournament, Full Tilt Poker
Your image: A little tight
Opponent’s image: Very aggro
Your hand: Q♠Q♦
The setup: You’re at a pretty active table in this tournament. This hand, UTG raises to 3x and change. You think about repopping when it full article
Combo draw, large pot, deep stacks, Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: ITM, 118/6800 remain
Avg stack: 580k
Your image: You just moved to this table
Your hand: A♠4♠
This hand is taken from actual gameplay in the PokerStars Sunday Million. The hand took place between 9mmkemper, Yingda and devinr12. full article
Blind vs blind deep in the Fifty Fifty
Game type: No limit tournament 50+5, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: ITM
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive, winning player
Your hand: A♦8♥
The setup: You’re down to just a few tables in the fifty fifty on Full Tilt when the following hand comes up. You’re full article
Pair out of position in the river, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: ITM, 36 / 7001 remain
Avg stack: ~2m
Your image: Solid, a little tight
Opponent’s image: Same
Your hand: Q♥T♥
The setup: You’re deep in the money of the Sunday Million. You’ve been kind of card dead and playing a full article
Pocket pair facing all in re-raise, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million, $530 buy in
Stage of tourney: ITM, near bubble
Avg stack: ~420k
Your image: Aggressive
Opponent’s image: No strong read, solid winner in PokerDB
Your hand: J♦J♣
This hand is taken from actual game play between DarthRazor and superpokemon in the Stars Sunday Million full article
Medium ace on the button facing UTG raise, nl tournament
Game type: Turbo MTT
Stage of tourney: Early
Avg stack: ~3k
Your image: Solid
Opponent’s image: No real read
Your hand: A♦9♥
The setup: You’ve built a little bit of a stack in this no limit turbo tournament when the following hand comes up. You’re dealt A9o on full article
Archive pick: Big pocket pair facing limp re-raise
Game type: PokerStars MTT, $150 buy in
Stage of tourney: Early
Avg stack: ~3k
Your image: Solid
Opponent’s image: No read
Your hand: J♦J♣
This quiz is taken from our archives and was originally posted on 1-31-08. To view the original quiz, comments and answer, click here
The setup: full article
Queens facing flop shove, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: ITM, 42 / 7176 remain
Avg stack: 1.7 m
Your image: Possibly tilty
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: Q♦Q♥
This hand is taken from game play in the Stars Sunday Million on 4/20/08 between nurospoker and jaygee1984. You’ll full article
Archive Pick: Garbage hand on the final table bubble - PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: NLHE tournament, PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 11 remain
Avg stack: ~6 million
Your image: Nursing the short stack
Opponent’s image: Relatively quiet
Your hand: 9♠2♥
This quiz is taken from our archives and originally appeared on 12/17/07. To view the original quiz, along with answer full article
Middle pair facing re-raise in the Sunday Million
Game type: PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 18 players remain
Avg stack: ~ 4M
Your image: Fairly tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive
Your hand: 8♦8♠
This hand is taken directly from game play in the Poker Stars Sunday Million on April 13th between NemoStars22 and Mescalin8. You will be full article
Archive Pick: KJ facing a three-bet shove, nl tourney
Game type: $50 Rebuy on Pokerstars
Stage of tourney: Rebut period closed, nowhere near the bubble
Avg stack: 13k
Your image: Unknown
Opponent’s image: You’ve seen this reshove once in the last couple of hands
Your hand: K♣J♦
This quiz is taken from our archives and originally ran on 11/30/07. full article
Top pair medium kicker on paired board, PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: In the money, 120 remain
Avg stack: ~ 600k
Your image: Aggressive
Opponent’s image: Smaller buy in losing player
Your hand: A♥9♥
This hand is taken directly from game play in the Poker Stars Sunday Million on April 6th
The setup: You’ve been full article
Pair and draw out of position on turn, PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: PokerStars Sunday Million, $1k buy in
Stage of tourney: Close to the money
Avg stack: 42k
Your image: A little splashy
Opponent’s image: Has been playing the big stack aggressively
Your hand: 5♦5♥
This hand is based on actual game play in the PS Sunday Million on March full article
Top pair on monochrome board, PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: In the money
Avg stack: about 500k
Your image: Aggressive
Opponent’s image: A little desperate
Your hand: A♦9♥
Thsi hand is taken from actual gameplay in the PokerStars Sunday Million between pbdrunks and Big Pig 63. You’ll be standing in full article
Third pair on a draw-heavy board facing a turn lead, WCOOP main event
Game type: Main event of the WCOOP
Stage of tourney: Nowhere near a bubble
Avg stack: 208k
Your image: A little active
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: A♥7♥
The setup: It’s the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. You have a below average stack full article
Missed turn with draw out of position, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 34 / 7300 remain
Avg stack: 2.6m
Your image: Solid
Opponent’s image: Has a history of being loose, but has been nitty last few orbits.
Your hand: A♦J♣
This hand is based on a hand that took place between pusteblume and full article
Draw facing a lead on the turn, PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 7 / 7600 remain
Avg stack: 11.2m
Your image: Solid
Opponent’s image: A little aggressive
Your hand: A♠Q♥
This hand is taken from game play in the PokerStars Sunday Million between Baikal7 and Kvanmo. You’ll be standing in for Kvanmo.
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Kings on 3 flush turn, PokerStars Sunday Million
Game type: No limit tournament, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 37/3200
Avg stack: 860
Your image: Solid
Opponent’s image: A bit loose
Your hand: K♥K♦
This hand is taken from actual game play in the Poker Stars Sunday Million between Pipedream17 and EASY DZ. You’ll be standing full article
Missed flop and turn, out of position, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Game type: No limit tournament, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: Final table bubble, 12/6500
Avg stack: 5.7m
Your image: LAGish
Opponent’s image: Solid
Your hand: A♣8♣
This hand is taken from actual game play in the Poker Stars Sunday Million between Queen West and Tired Loser. You’ll full article
