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Online Cash Game:
No Limit Texas Hold 'Em
Small Blind $5/ Big Blind $10
You are sitting in middle position with $985 in chips in front of you. Everyone folds over to you, and you look down at Ace-King offsuit. This is the first hand you've entered a pot in this game so far. So you have relatively no read on anyone.
(What do you do? Bet or Call?)
You like what you see, and you raise it a standard 4 times the big blind or $40. Making the pot $55. It folds over to the button who after thinking for a while calls the $40 bet. The pot is now $95.
The flop is dealt. 2 of hearts, 5 of diamonds, 9 of clubs.
(What do you do? Check or Bet?)
The flop is trash and doesn't help your hand, but doesn't neccessarily hurts your hand either. You figure your opponent hasn't hit anything either and you lead out with a pot sized bet of $100. Your opponent again thinks for a while and calls your bet. This scares you that he would call your large bet, and you begin putting him on a pocket pair or a set. The pot is now at $295
The turn is dealt. 10 of spades.
(What do you do? Check or Bet?)
You are scared of his flop call, and the turn doesn't help your hand. You decide to check the board to him. After a little thinking he now makes a half pot bet of $150.
(What do you do? Call, Raise or Fold?)
You figure he has atleast a pair right now, and you figure out your pot odds and the odds of hitting your king or ace on the river. You have 6 outs and 46 cards left in the deck. You have approximately 7.5 to 1 chance of hitting your out on the river. The current pot odds are a little under 3 to 1. You aren't getting the odds to play this hand any further. You decide to fold this hand.
What hand do you think the button had?
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3 comments:
i would have called preflop because that is my style especially when im new at the table, now lets say i called and someone raised now im likely to reraise here since his range of hands is big here, ive got the kind of hand that im happy to win a small pot with plus this looks like i have a big pair and i can now better represent my big pair. if i was to get reraised again then i could fold. if we saw the flop for $10 each then im just check/folding.
if i had raised preflop then i would not be making a pot size bet on the flop id bet like $50-$60, if my opponents are the type to read that as weakness well then im just gonna have to be more picky about the hands i raise preflop with. i am not a fan of making pot size bets when i miss the flop in a ring game. betting half the pot here isnt exactly weak anyway, i figure to have the best hand if he didnt hit a random 9 or start with a pocketpair and this bet can look like i want action, if i get raised then depending on the amount he raises i may still figure to have the best hand
what do i think the button had well thats hard to guess since you know nothing about the player, he may be the type to call on the flop thinking your just making a c-bet and since he has position he figures to take the hand away from you, or he may have a peice and is just calling to see if you bet again and when you dont he is making a value bet to get you to chase you just dont know but i think most likely the person caught something maybe even a duece. in a situation like this a 9, 5 and a 2 are all about the same strength wise.
I like the preflop raise. I think the check/fold on the turn is fine too. The only thing I don't like is the pot sized bet on the flop. It's easy to reason (from your opponent's perspective) that the flop hasn't helped you, and betting the full pot looks too much like you're trying to take it down with air. An overpair generally doesn't bet this strong. I would prefer to see a bet around $80. I think a bet of this size gives away a little less information. It could be read as a c-bet, or a high pocket pair.
As far as your opponent's $150 bet after the check on the turn, this is tough to read. A 1/2 pot size bet could be either a stab, or a value bet with a medium size pocket pair. I think you could either fold, or reraise to $400 if you had a read and felt strongly that he could fold. All read dependent of course.
I would read his hand as pocket 9s. A $40 call to see if you hit your set when in good position seems very possible. I don't think that with 9-5, 9-2 or 5-2 or even 5-5 or 2-2 he would have called the pre-flop raise. If it had been pocket 10s, doubtful that he would have called after the flop. With a higher pair, I would have re-raised the preflop.
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