Daily Hand Quiz Archives: Tourney / NL

June 30, 2008
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

June 17, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

June 16, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

June 10, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

May 22, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

May 19, 2008
Tourney / NL

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
The   full article

May 16, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

May 12, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

May 9, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

May 5, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 28, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 25, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 22, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 21, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 15, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 14, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 8, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

April 7, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

March 31, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

March 24, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

March 21, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

March 17, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

March 10, 2008
Tourney / NL

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.
The   full article

March 3, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

February 25, 2008
Tourney / NL

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

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