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Both opponents check to you again

sportbookpoker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:23:36 +0000

4 Both opponents check to you again, and you are sitting there with basically nothing. What is your play?

A. Bet B. Check

Many players would reason here that they couldn’t win this hand by checking, and they would be right. But the fact is that you couldn’t win this hand by betting either. You gave up all right to bluff this river when you checked the turn. Checking the turn after raising preflop and betting the flop and then getting called just smells too much like a player from sports book poker who is weak and who is afraid to take another stab at it.

You already know that someone is sitting out there with some kind of made hand. Are you so desperate to win a $13 pot that you are going to risk a huge over-bet bluff against two players in order to get your hands on it? You decide to fire at the pot and make a $10 bet on the end, and the small blind calls you and shows the K, -10+ for top pair – don’t say I didn’t warn you!

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The turn card is the 24, giving you a flush draw

sportbookpoker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:20:55 +0000

3 The turn card is the 24, giving you a flush draw. Both blinds check to you. What is your play?

A. Bet B. Check

In this instance it is prudent to check the hand back, as your continuation bet was called by both players and there are no possible draws out there except an inside-straight draw. This means that at least one of your opponents is sitting there with some kind of made hand and is content to let you bluff your money off.

Many players adopt a defensive check/calling mode when they have something mediocre that they believe may be the best hand. Against only one opponent, it may well be correct to fire again, but against two players it would appear that you are going to have to make a flush to win this hand.

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The flop comes KV-96-3+

sportbookpoker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:20:32 +0000

2 The flop comes KV-96-3+ and both blinds check to you.

What is your play? A. Bet B. check

There are two cards in the playing zone of hands that either get played more often or create some kind of draw, and those cards are the king and the nine. As the preflop raiser, you are well set to represent the king, as you may have an ace-king or king-queen combination or possibly a hand like ace-jack.

Against one opponent, making a continuation bet would be mandatory, but with the presence of an extra player, the hand becomes a little more problematic. This is why the difference between checking and betting is not great and why checking it back has been awarded eight points.

You bet $3 into the $4.50 pot and both opponents call, making $13.50 in the pot.

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How Good Is Your Poker?

sportbookpoker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:16:09 +0000

STARTING THIS MONTH I would like to add a slightly different flavour to our monthly quiz. So far we have covered mostly limit hold’em, but from here on I would like to test you on other forms of poker, and this will include actual hands I have played on my sponsor’s site, Sportsbook Poker. The hand this month takes place at a $0.5041 blind no-limit hold’em ten-handed table online. With a $100 maximum buy-in and several players deliberately playing a short stack, this was never going to be a hugely profitable game, but this hand was very illuminating just the same. The low-stakes full ring games on sports book com are pretty tight and most players don’t get out of line, and the ones who do only do so occasionally. In this hand it was folded to me in the cutoff seat (one to the right of the button) and I held the 84-7A.

The players to my left had the folio. ing stacks:

You have $116. Come on now, what is your play? A. Raise B. Limp C. Fold

In this situation, there is nothing-. wrong with folding, as you have a haithat needs implied odds to be profitable unless you can outplay the opposition. is for this very reason that limping alor. is the wrong play as it is unlikely that yc will either flop the monster or create tl-. multi-way pot that you are after. Yc could easily get raised by the ‘button c-your left after what is a very weak limp. I can understand the fact that you a, trying to hit a big flop, but the overall ca fibre of play in NL100 games is not j poor as you may think. They may not be the Sportsbook Las Vegas A. Stars, but they are not there just to throw money at you. But because your hand relatively weak, folding is still awarded with eight points here.

But I like to try to create errors by rr opponents – errors like calling my raise and then meekly check-folding the flo-. whenever they miss. I also like to explo:- players who are easily pushed off the blinds.

Those blinds may not seem much, but those uncontested 75-cent pots add ap over the course of a year. But I also select hands that allow me the opportunity to make a big hand just in case I get played along with. This allows me to try to exploit another potential error – getting someone to overplay a good second best hand. It also needs to be mentioned that short stacks tend to be very tight and tend to play really condensed ranges, and the big blind fits the bill perfectly here. If your analysis and reasoning went along similar lines, then reward yourself with a nice big fat 10 BONUS POINTS! You decide to open-raise to $1.50 and the button folds, but both blinds call your raise, making a $4.50 pot.

The flop comes KV-96-3+ and both blinds check to you
The turn card is the 24, giving you a flush draw. Both blinds check to you. What is your play?
Both opponents check to you again, and you are sitting there with basically nothing. What is your play?

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