[JojoDiego]

Check out today's quiz on the Card Player Web site:

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Question: A $10-$20 game. You open on K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]-K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] with a raise from early position. A middle player, the cutoff, and the big blind call. There is $85 in the pot and four players. The flop is: 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]-6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], giving you an overpair and a backdoor flush-draw. The big blind checks. You bet. The middle player calls and the cutoff raises. The big blind folds. What do you do?

Answer: Call. With this board, there are a number of bad cards that can come off on the turn which hurt your hand. A ten, a nine, a seven, and a five are all bad, unless they include a diamond. Even with a diamond, you may be chasing instead of leading. If a blank comes on the turn you can bet. Just calling now does not obligate you to check on the turn.

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My first instinct here was to reraise. It's already a big pot, and we're ahead of everything but 99, 88 and 66 (it's seems unlikely the other hands that beat us called the PF raise). A reraise might get us HU with the CO, which limits the total possible outs against us to 10 or so. If the middle player calls again, there's maybe 14 total outs against us, and the pot is now huge. (I'm also assuming the BB will fold to the CO's raise.)

Thoughts? Do we have enough equity here to reraise, or is the Card Player answer correct?