Hypothetical situation with top two pair

[kurosh]

You open-raise in MP with KQs. Folded around to the BB who calls. BB is a solid tricky player.

Flop comes: K/images/graemlins/heart.gif Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif none of your suit

BB checks. You bet. He CR's. What's your plan for the rest of the hand? Do you wait for a safe turn card to raise? Do you pump the flop? Imagine he has JT but you don't know it and how he would play it. How do you lose the least when you're behind but gain the most when you're ahead?

[Kailia Marie]

Hi Kurosh,

WHat would a solid tricky player have that he would call the preflop raise with? And what range of hands would he have called and then checkraise this flop?

So let us put him on a range of hands. Given that he is "solid" we should rule out any type of weak King or Queen as it would have surely been folded preflop, so there should be nothing like K9s, Q9s or hte like.

BB could have:
KQ
KJ
KT
AQ (with or without the flush draw)
QJ (with or without the flush draw)
QT (with or without the flush draw)
JTs
99

It's pretty limited here, but you are only behind JT and 99 and it would not seem very likely he would checkraise you with just a Queen (unless it was with the flush draw) because there's too much of a chance he would get 3-bet. So most of the time you'll run into KJ-KT hands and Queen+flush draw hands which you'd do better to 3-bet this flop with. If he is solid, he may fold KJ or KT (or a non flush draw Q) to a turn raise if you elect to do that, but will always 3-bet you when you're behind where you cna't fold. You would be better off going to war on this flop since flop raises and 3-bets and caps will mean a lot less than turn raises.

/images/graemlins/heart.gifKailia