MMalmuth's 80/160 hand article: A Simple Hand

[Magicmanu]

Why is he less likely to check the Ace than the Queen?

[SA125]

My guess is the A gets called by the Q (maybe raised by an aggressive player) but the Q would hate to get raised. It also may be taken as a bluff attempt. I wonder if people playing 80-160 are aware of - drumroll please - Clark's Theorum. Just kidding Clark. As you can see from my guess, the only theorum I'll ever have is don't drink a lot of beer if there's no place to pee. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[StellarWind]

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Why is he less likely to check the Ace than the Queen?

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Because the ace is the nuts. Some players would be nervous that their queen isn't good and just checkcall.

[DavidC]

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Why is he less likely to check the Ace than the Queen?

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Because the ace is the nuts. Some players would be nervous that their queen isn't good and just checkcall.

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Firstly, I made this question before you, provided a few ideas in my thread, but nothing definite...

Secondly, the tone used in Mason's article indicate that there's some poker concept that indicates that the Q should indeed be checked and the ace bet out here.

I don't think that it's a matter of what people DO do, that he's talking about, but what they SHOULD do.

But yeah, I have no idea why they SHOULD check the queen.

--Dave.

Under the gun don't see why checking the A on the turn is a bad play thinking the Q or T would bet obviously then check/raise and lead out on river hoping to get a call from the Q.

[TomBrooks]

The author and readers were hoping you would see why.