Friday, December 16, 2005

What would you do?

1. You're at the BB with AJ. An early position player raises. A middle position player calls the raise and the cut-off seat re-raises.

2. You're at the button with AK. Three players limp, you raise, the blinds fold but the the three limpers call. Flop is at J87 rainbow. The first player bets and the next two players fold.

3. You raise at the button with Ad Ah (red aces). Two players call your raise. The flop is 789 all clubs. A player bets and another player calls.

1 comment:

peppericious said...

1. fold. youre in trouble when theres two bets to you. AJ is drawing thin against AQ and AK. Theres no way an AT would raise or reraise pre-flop so the best case scenario for you is a coin flip which you should avoid. theres even a chance youre against a big pair which almost assures you of a loss.

2. fold. limpers usually mean either a weak kicker ace or suited connectors. with connectors, its almost an assurance that one of the players hit a pair or drawing to the straight. the danger with calling is that one of them might hold 9T which means you're drawing to runner runner.

3. raise. this raise comes with a condition. if another player reraises then its time to fold. if a scare card (another club or a T,J,5,6) comes and there is a bet to you then fold. even if they call your raise, be very careful going to the turn because they might already have a hand that beats you (a made flush or straight at the flop).